2003 · animation · comedy · adventure
The Triplets of Belleville
Directed by Sylvain Chomet1h 20m2003
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.
Our read: The Triplets of Belleville (2003) reads as a warm, steady, surreal animation · comedy · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured animation / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- surreal
- signature
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“You want wordless French animation jazz, odd charms, and Tour de France whimsy.”
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