Taxandria 1996 123movies

Watch: Taxandria 1994 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see inside the light of the lamp – the world of Taxandria ruled by the dictatorship of the ‘eternal present’ where all machines, progress and time have been banned. However, a naive but creative printing clerk unwittingly causes a revolution when he upsets a printing press and tries to replace the spilled letters only to have his new words taken for a subversive code. On the run he falls in love with a palace princess, discovers the forbidden art of photography and sets out to fulfill his dream of building a flying machine..
Plot: A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.
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one of the first weird movies ive ever watched
All i can say that this movie was so weird that even today i remember the paralel-dimension scenes, the weird animation scenes and the fact the movie feels like you are walking into another paralel dimension, because is too well photographe and directed.the influence this movie have in the kind of movies i like is enough that, let just say, since this movie i love when a grounded in reality movie with real people and real places, then in the middle becomes a sci-fi and the people start reacting and doing things that look grounded, but in another time or space.

The first time was cinemax, afternoon, and was because looked so classic and then started the sci-fi and i love when a movie does that.

Dont show me a new world, show me real people into another world at the middle of the movie and will be great, like deja vu, tenet, back to the future, looper, etc if i was a director, i would like this kind of movie to direct at some point.

visually stunning
“Taxandria” is a work made by Ostend-born director Raoul Servais, who used an highly unusual animation technique. I can’t say it’s a total success : it took a very long time to make and various switches in artistic approach and viewpoint resulted in a certain loss of impact. However, it contains images of great beauty and fascination, just as it contains moments of uncanny surprise or nightmarish absurdity. Lovers of Belgian surrealism can amuse themselves by noting the references to the work of painters such as Magritte and Delvaux.

As far as I know, “Taxandria” was not a great success at the box office. The reasons why it didn’t do so well are probably many and various. Still, I suppose that at least some of its satirical barbs about the dangers of oppressive over-conformity and bureaucratic tyranny were too astute and accurate to be comfortable. The movie’s unpleasant dystopia is not wholly and totally removed from real-life Belgium, as indicated by its name, which refers to a Roman name for a geographical area now part of Belgium.

“Taxandria” is also eerily prescient. One of the themes is mandatory loss of identity, which is enforced by cutting the individual off from both past and future. Compare to our current Western society, where people who should know better openly question or dismiss the relevance of disciplines and sciences such as history (boring), philosophy (boringer) or classic languages (boringest). Or simply watch current news programmes, with their quick and superficial items and their “horror vacui” sensory overload…

Do check out Servais’ other animation and graphic work. For instance, there’s “Nachtvlinders” (Night moths), a genius short about the work of painter Delvaux, which breathes a truly unsettling and slippery atmosphere.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min) (Belgium), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (Singapore)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Adventure, Fantasy
Director Raoul Servais
Writer Frank Daniel, Raoul Servais, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt
Country Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
Awards 4 wins & 3 nominations
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Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
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Laboratory Arri Contrast GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France, Meuter-Titra, Bruxelles, Belgium, Taunus-Film, Wiesbaden, Germany
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