Synopsis
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
2003 ‘Les Triplettes de Belleville’ Directed by Sylvain Chomet
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
Production Champion Vivi Film France 3 Cinéma BBC Bristol Productions BBC Worldwide The Movie Network RGP France SODEC Les Armateurs Sony Pictures Classics
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Love this movie but it loses some points because a girl I had a crush on in high school said I looked like the waiter and I did not care for that one bit
Is there a story? Barely.
Is there rich, witty dialogue? No.
Is there any dialogue? Nope.
Is it gorgeously animated? Yes, yes, yes.
The artwork animation on display in Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville is absolutely stunning in its execution. The characters that reside in this wonderful, simplistic world of cycling and train-barking are undeniably singular, you've never quite seen characters like this before; whether it's Madame Souza's mound of a figure, potato-faced with Fraggle Rock eyes or the ridiculousness of Champion, the perpetual cyclist with his rope torso perched atop his bike, powered by his ham hock calves and the wind against his jib nose or the elderly Belleville triplets all looking like a geriatric Janice from the…
Never have I felt more confused about I film I know I liked. It feels like this movie comes from a different dimension. It's both beautiful and ugly. It's funny, but not too funny. It's slow, but energetic. It's loud, but there's barely any dialogue.
I feel like I need to precess this film. And then process. And then process some more. I really liked it, it's just that I'm not entirely sure why.
One thing's for sure though. "Belleville Rendez-Vous", particularly the version tha plays during the credits, it's an absolute banger.
an incomplete list of uncanny things in the triplets of belleville that freaked me the fuck out:
the exhausted cyclists
the box mafia
the really tall ships
the accordion girl
every goddamned nose on screen
the zombie frog
the fucking elastic maitre'd
the odd bursts of 3D and CGI
good music though!
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tour de franced for scav hunt 20
task 20 - a non-american and non-japanese animated movie
Despite my lack of investment in the story itself, it makes up with the animation and much of the visual storytelling is distinctive and employed in a compelling way. All of the character designs have this edge between realism and the fantastic. The animation is solid throughout the action scenes, but it really shines in the final one, which successfully combines a healthy dose of tension with a healthy dose of humor (primarily achieved through the characters' over-the-top but nonetheless funny reactions).
All in all, while its almost silent film nature may not be to many people's taste, it is definitely one worth watching.
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I love this stout animated mother with her musical bicycle wheel more than I love myself.
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2003 Marathon - Film #66
The Name: Souza… Madame Souza.
The Assets: A rolly-polly trainspotting dog named Bruno and three elderly frog-devouring vaudevillians known as the “The Triplets of Belleville”
The Mission: To find and recover grandson Champion. A spaced-out cyclist who’s been kidnapped by some mysterious big-shouldered gangsters.
This was the first French movie to ever receive a Best Animated Feature Oscar nod and it’s lack of dialogue combined with it’s bizarre use of objects makes it feel like a Jacques Tati produced episode of Liquid Television.
BONUS POINTS for the overall style and especially Bruno’s railrodder dreams which gave me instant flashbacks to a childhood favorite: The Secret Railroad
This is an animated movie to fall in love with.
There is more imagination in this film's puny 80 minutes than in all the other films I've seen this year put together.
It’s surreal, sweet, cooler-than-cool, tremendously dorky, nearly silent, has one of the most bangin’ jazz soundtracks ever, abruptly becomes a mobster crime thriller for a bit, has the thickest lil chonky dog you’ll ever wanna pet, and it will stick to your brain and never let go.
You may love it, you may hate it, but you've never seen anything like it.