Taxandria

Raoul Servais, a painter and animator, worked for more than 15 years for his sole feature length film to come to life. The drawings in the film are from François Schuiten, and architect and graphic novel illustrator, who worked particularly on the "Dark Cities", whose graphic world is very similar to Servais'. "He likes crumbling cities, ivy-clad necropolises, horizons where the future welcomes mythology. He is a child of Jules Verne", wrote one critic about him. The shadows of the painters Magritte and Delvaux float over Taxandria. From the point of view of the story, the elements come more from the world of Kafka: the political discourse takes on symbolic elements, in direct line with the pictorial environment of the film.