Les Maîtres du Temps aka Time Masters...
Recently, after reviewing some of the older entries in the archive, I realized that I was missing Les Maîtres du temps aka Time Masters...
A quick search of my local online retailer indicated that the English-dubbed release is now out-of-print and that the PAL-format release is also now out-of-print. So, once again, YouTube, came to the rescue. Thanks go to thespinelessjelly for posting the subtitled French version. I already have Fantastic Planet and Gandahar in the archive and wanted to add this treasure to the archive as well. I would certainly purchase this title, but, it appears at this time that there are no plans for a U.S. release of the remastered French print or even a re-release of the edited English-dubbed version. Even 30 years later, the animation and story still manage to hold up very well.From the director of Fantastic Planet and Gandahar. René Laloux, comes Les Maîtres du Temps aka Time Masters, his penultimate animated feature film, in 1982.
A huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux's famous imagination with that of animation designer Jean Giraud (aka Moebius).
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel a young boy alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. On board Jaffar's shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad who knows the planet Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel...
