Let me start this review by saying that one major problem I had with "Les astronautes" or "The Astroanuats" is an entirely subjective one. I did not like the animation style at all. And this basically kept this decisively from becoming a good experience for me. This little movie runs for 12 minutes and was made by Walerian Borowczyk and Chris Marker, both fairly successful and prolific filmmakers during their day. Unfortunately, they did not impress me here. On a less subjective note, I felt the story was fairly uninteresting and even difficult to understand occasionally. The basic idea of making a film about space travel in 1959, almost 60 years ago is the only aspect I can think of that makes this still an interesting watch. But it does not turn out to be rewarding in my opinion because of a lot of downside. I do not recommend checking it out and this film is another piece of evidence that by the late 1950s (with the exception of an occasional quality cartoon), animated short films were mostly disappointing.
Review of Les astronautes
