The latest Sight & Sound is out, in which I tackle two highly distinctive films from Hungary and France (via Czechoslovakia). The Hungarian one is Kornél Mundruczó’s Johanna, an ambitious transposition of the Joan of Arc legend onto a scenario set in a murkily-lit present-day hospital – oh, and it’s a full-length opera written directly for the screen, courtesy of composer Zsofia Taller. The French/Czechoslovak one is René Laloux’s legendary Fantastic Planet, one of the most effective attempts at bringing the artist Roland Topor’s vision to the screen – my favourite is still Henri Xhonneux’s Marquis (1989), but it’s a close-run thing.