- Taxandria (film)
Infobox Film
name = Taxandria
caption = A screenshot from the film
director =Raoul Servais
producer = Iblis Films
Bibo TV&Film (Berlin)
Les Productions Drussart (Paris)
Prascino Pictures (Amsterdam), e.a.
writer = Frank Daniel
Raoul Servais
Alain Robbe-Grillet
narrator =
starring =
music =Kim Bullard
cinematography =Raoul Servais (animation)
editing =
distributor = ANAGRAM
released =1994
runtime = 76 min
country = flag|Belgium
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0117865Taxandria (
1994 ) is a partially animated film byRaoul Servais .Plot
Young prince Jan has been sent to a quiet coastal resort to study for his final exams, but instead he spends most his time with his new friend, the lighthouse keeper. Jan ignores the warnings of the locals who claim that the loony lighthouse man eats seagulls for breakfast. Maybe he is crazy, but this does not prevent the prince from entering the lighthouse keeper's dream-land Taxandria, a phantasmagorical place devoid of time, memory, and progress. The land is ruled by a two-headed prince and his policemen who insure that everyone there lives in the Present (it is illegal to discuss the past or future). While at first Taxandria seems a magical, wonderful place, Jan soon sees the darker side of this strange world. The people are not happy living only in the present; it is repressive. Soon he sees that many suffer from extreme paranoia. One young man, Aimé, seems to be a catalyst for change in Taxandria, as he is obsessed with learning about the country's past. Later, Jan falls in love with Princess Ailée who is trying to free herself from the paradisaical confines of the Garden of Mirth, where women are kept away from men.
ee also
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Taxandria (region)ource
* [http://www.raoulservais.be Taxandria]
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