Taxandria (film)

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Taxandria
Directed by	Raoul Servais
Produced by	Iblis Films Bibo TV&Film (Berlin) Les Productions Drussart (Paris) Prascino Pictures (Amsterdam), e.a.
Written by	Frank Daniel Raoul Servais Alain Robbe-Grillet
Music by	Kim Bullard
Cinematography	Raoul Servais (animation)
Distributed by	ANAGRAM
Release date(s)	1994
Running time	76 min
Country	Belgium
Language	English
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Taxandria (1994) is a partially animated film by Raoul Servais.

[edit] 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.