The Snails

The Snails

Directed by René Laloux

Produced by Société des Films d’Art et de Culture

196611 min6.9 / 10

A darkly whimsical stop-motion fable about futile labor and cosmic indifference, told through the struggles of an isolated farmer on an alien world.

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

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