Originally conceived as a video game, Chris Delaporte and Pascal Pinon's spacey science-fiction fable — the first feature-length CGI-animated film made in France — has the distinctive
Heavy Metal magazine meets THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) vibe of Euro-science-fiction comics, complete with ponderous philosophical noodling, weirdly whimsical aliens and seriously creepy creature sex. Bold, restlessly intelligent Keana (voice of Kirsten Dunst), whose boom-boom room figure could stop planets mid-orbit, lives on Axis, a coiled tree world in the clouds. Kaena yearns to know what lies beyond the borders of her primitive village, but her tribe's spiritual leader disco...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
91 mins