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A French Animated Masterpiece' 'Les Triplettes de Belleville'!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... I saw the trailer for LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE on September 11th of this year, but didn't know if it was a feature, a short... what... What I thought at the time was that it looked like genius. The style, the motion, the animation, the sound... Everything about that oh too brief glimpse of LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE screamed genius. And now a French animator that didn't work on it, has seen it, fallen deeply in love and set out in a foriegn language to share their passion for the project with the likes of us. In all likelihood this is the first time you'll have heard of this film. From the look and sound of it, it mose certainly won't be the last. A feature animated film of an adult storytelling nature told with no dialogue and pure animation defying all the standards and rules of traditional modern animation... I CAN'T WAIT!!! Here you go...
CLICK HERE FOR THE AMAZING TRAILER!!!!
I'm french (excuse my terrible English) and I'm studying
animation.
I believe in god now.I do believe.because yesterday I saw
one of my dream becoming true.
I saw "les triplettes de Belleville".an animated feature
directed by Sylvain Chomet who gave us "la vieille dame et
les pigeons".
you know,nowadays,only american and japanese company can
give us high quality animated feature.and only japanes can
give us high quality AND personnal animated feature.I love
the iron giant and Pixar movies but they are made to make
money.
main characters are all healthy and charismatic even in Tim
Burton's nightmare before Christmas.even in Lilo and Stich
(Stich is a nice guy
at the end....)
so...only the japanese are doing great personnal animated
feature...
WRONG
WRONG
WRONG
I couldn't believe it but Sylvain Chomet did what I dreamt
of : a personnal animated feature which kicks ass very hard.
animation at its best.beautiful backgrounds.incredible
designs.and so personnal.
Chomet did the designs. Chomet directed the animation. Chomet
drew the previous backgrounds.
it looks like nothing.the character designs are way far
from japanese or american film.(see the trailer above)
the animation is as good as Disney's(really) but completely
different.I can't describe it. it was my first time seeing
something like that.
and the story...well,it's not a Disney or a Ghibli story!
a young boy lives with his Grandmother in a little village
near Belleville(which looks like old New York)
his Grandmother tries to make him happy but fails most of
the time.and then she discover that her son wants to be a
cyclist.
15 years later,the boy is a cyclist and is riding for "le
tour de france"the most important riding competition in
France.
but on his ride,he's kidnapped with 2 other cyclists.why?
because in Belleville the ambassade of french wine is
making illegal bets
on cyclists....
so,his Grandmother comes to rescue him with three old
singing ladies...
the story is quite simple,but it allows Chomet to put a lot
of funny and weird characters like the stupid dog "bruno"
and the three old ladies.
and Chomet tells the story in his own way. and that
means....(you won't believe it...)
NO DIALOGUES.just animation.and the animation is so good
that you understand everything.it's incredible and it
works!!!a guy just told me that
he realized there were no dialogues after 45 minutes of
film!
NO YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL CHARACTERS.they are all ugly,old,fat
or too thin.the dog is stupid and the grandmother has a leg
longer than the other one.
but they are all funny.
NO MORAL ENDING,NO LOVE STORY.
NO VIOLENCE,NO SEX.sometimes it's useless...
but
HUMOR.the movie is really funny.there's a lot of incredible
details that made me laugh.
like the old lady who goes fishing for frogs with a 1914
grenade...
FRENCH TASTE.just like Jean Pierre Jeunet's Amelie.but even
more frenchy.it's not about Paris.it's about France.
little people in little villages.
VERY HIGH QUALITY.the cgi are perfect,the animation is one
of the best work I have ever seen....
A 10 miles/h CHASE with citroen 2cv.absolutely crazy.
everybody in the cinema loved it.there were guys from
Disney and Pixar and Dreamworks.they were all amazed.
My whole body was shaking.
and I realized one thing yesterday...I learned what was the
meaning of a word that I use too many times.
this word is "masterpiece".and I only saw three in my life.
Blade runner
princess mononoke
and now "les triplettes de Belleville."
you will see what I mean when you'll see it at the Cannes
film festival.
I believe in god because of this film.trust me.
call me PORCO ROSSO.
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sounds promising, but whats the soundtrack like, no way this can top spirited away
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a thoughtful animated feature thats from overseas, what does this mean? Well it means that every critic in the nation will praise it, but Disney (or whoever) will poorly distribute and promote the film, just like SPIRITED AWAY. Man, I swear, if I was Miyazaki, I wouldnt let Disney handle one fucking movie of mine, what a bunch of idiots. Oh yes, and this French film sounds very cool, too bad we wont get the obligatory "kitchen argument." Im there if its released here in the US.
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Oops. anyway, you guys are exactly right about Disney's rediculous distribution of Spirited Away. I had to drive almost 40 miles to see it. and the next nearest theatre is like 6 hours away. Crazy! Spirited Away was true genius, as was Princess Mononoke and another marvelous movie from Takahata (a colleague of Miyazaki at the Ghibli Studio) called Grave of the Fireflies. I couldnt believe the power and emotional impact that movie had on me. Huge recommendation for Grave of the Fireflies. Being a big animation fan, I hope that this new one is as wonderful as the reviewer says it is. The more sources of quality animation, the greater chance that American distributors will get a clue. I'll definitly see it, as long as whomever decides such things has the foresight to bring it to Southern California. When will "Hollywood" take non-Disney animation seriously? When will Miyazaki be recognized as the genius filmmaker/storyteller/artist that he so obviously is?
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By the way, did anyone catch the recent anime release called Metropolis? It has a similar basic storyline as Fritz Lang's classic from the '20s, and is animated in the style of Speed Racer. I know, I know... it sounds crazy, but it was actually very entertaining. The settings were really beautiful in thier own way. And the selection of Ray Charles' music for the end credits was bold, but very apropriate. Check it out.
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and it rocks!Quite the motivator that grandma on her tricycle. And the way she massaged calves! I feel for the fella at the movie premiere scene, in the crack of that fat lady's ass. Overall, this thing looks absolutely stunning. Very charming.
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Nov 18, 2002 10:48:56 AM CST
"I believe in god because of this film.trust me." Just like B
by lance rock
Sheesh, I'm amazing at people's unending capacity for counterfeit hype!
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Actually, I've seen professional 2CV racing. Think of the mini scene in the Italian Job, but more ridiculous.... and you're there. No dialogue in that either... actually, why no dialogue? Ok, it could work. Maybe worth seeing for the experiment....
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after all that hype for Spirited Away. That film focused for maybe 45 mins on an extremely unpleasant character. Disney films are smart to include an evil villain, but only put them onscreen for maybe 5 mins.* * *The whole set-up of Spirited ... was a nightmare: people who basically only eat and sleep, then return to a life of menial work. A little too close to my life, for comfort. Other than it being a dream (or nightmare), the story made no sense.*****Don't get me wrong -- a great accomplishment in craft. But a disappointing film.
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that's not hype..and it's not hyperbole....that my fellow talkbackers, was what genius looks like. I haven't seen something that original or that bizarre since i was a kid and saw that animated battle of britain in Pink floyd the wall (points for the other talkbacker that mentioned that before me....)...very strange..very surreal....reminds me a lot of the style of european editorial cartoonists from back in the 30s and 40's....(i know, most people will have no idea what that looks like, and the only reason I do, is that my mom is German, and has a book from when she was a kid back in germany that was a collection of such cartoons..and that trailer looks a helluva lot like that.....anyhow....that trailer was amazing.....really amazing....
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And of course, the "Josephine Baker" bit will probably be cut for any American release. Looks like a nice little film, if we can get it uncut. The song from the trailer was catchy, in that odd way that songs one can't understand often are.
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/18/obit.coburn.ap/index.html
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C'est extr
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Nov 19, 2002 3:14:59 AM CST
Forget that! Check out these trailers for the $20 million Korean
by guitarman555
Eh, that French flick looks like something Ralph Bakshi came up with during a hangover. Check out WONDERFUL DAYS instead. http://www.wonderfuldays.co.kr/download/index.php
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Shit shit shit. I gotta see this, I want to see this. As a fanatically devoted 2-D traditional animation fan - short, Disney, Fleicher, WB, MGM, Japanese, Russian, whatthefucknot (I have 150+ laserdisc collection to prove it) - I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE. If it does not make it to the US, I will be royally pissed. It does not matter whether the story makes no sense, it is SURREALISM at its damned best along with Russian animation (if you have never seen that kind before, find Masters of Russian Animation volume video set and Alexander Petrov's astonishing 1999 Oscar-winning short animated short THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA if you can), Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away and Katsuhiro Otomo's one-of-a-kind masterpiece short Cannon Fodder in the anime anthology MEMORIES. Watching the long trailer alone made me drop my jaw. I'm notorious in AICN for pissing on Amelie and some talkbackers accuse me of being a racist towards the French. I'm not anti-French, I'm sarcastic, I make French bread to be served with the delicious Italian spaghetti-and-salad dinner recipe, I admire Truffaut, Godard, Dreyer, Jeunet (for his first two brilliant Gilliam-esque fantasy films anyway) and other French film directors who don't try to make an ass out of themselves by being too pretentious and I DEMAND TO SEE THIS UTTERLY WEIRD AND UNIQUE ANIMATED FILM Les Triplettes de Belleville along with very-obscure-outside-France-and-yet-to-be-seen Le Journal d'Anne Frank (Anne Frank's Diary)
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Since this has once again boiled down to it sucks/it rocks. I'd like to make it known that IMO Triplettes rock. I don't know about originality, but least it's refreshingly different. If you gotta go retro, that's the way to go: way back.
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Did you guys miss the scene in the trailer with the black dancer and all the men turning into monkeys to drool over her? When the NAACP sees that, they're going to have a collective conniption and start comparing it to Birth of a Nation...
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Nov 19, 2002 2:45:06 PM CST
Holy Fromage!! This is BRILLIANT and deliciously WACKY.... I w
by bregalad_
Just looking at this stunning piece of film shows just how much we in America have been starving. We see something magical and perfect in Miyazaki.... because we are STARVING for good animation. Now here comes "Les Triplettes de Belleville" and everyone has the same reaction: GOD ALMIGHTY -- this is so DIFFERENT, so UNIQUE.... It reminds us like a slap in the face what we are missing! ---------------------------------------- Now we are painfully aware that DI$NEY (and others who milk the tired old formula) continues their choke hold on the American animation market. We are so used to horrible crap like "Atlantis" and "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron" that when something with such originality comes along like "Les Triplettes" we just don't know what to do with it. After "Spirited Away" wins the Oscar for 2002, then this beautiful little slice of French passion will win for 2003. MARK MY WORDS.
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Who's the guy singing the song?
I need to know right now!
He sounds like Mathieu Chedid (the guy from M), but I'm not sure.
Man, that film looks great! -
But, it will NEVER find much of an audience in the US. No dialogue? No songs? No pretty people? I'll have to wait till it's on dvd to see it, but I am curious.
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2 completely different films, while WONDERFUL DAYS shows breathtaking CGI and lush, vibrant visuals, the story looks like standard anime fare. Not that's a bad thing, I love Myiazaki's films as much as the next guy as well as Ghost In The Shell, Akira, Metropolis, Bastard, Robot Carnival... But LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE it's like nothing I've seen before!
The guy that said it looks like 30's Mickey only watched a few seconds... The animation, CG, and background paintings are top-notch but even better are the character designs, twisted and very expressive. CAN'T WAIT!!
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'no dialogue' means exactly that. there is NO talking in the film. it's simpy not needed. just a different way of telling a story, and believe me, it works...
the trailer on celuloid dreams is actually not the theatrical trailer for the film, it's a collection of images from the film used to promote it at the last cannes festival. there will probably be another one made once it gets released.
AFAIK no US release deal *yet*... here's hoping for you guys :-)
and well spotted, the song is done by M.
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This film was created, for the most part, in Montreal and used the talent of a number of French and Canadian animators. It was a great crew! There was also a guy with a small crew in Toronto and a couple of satellite studios in Brussels and Riga. All this under the direction of the Mad Genius Sylavian Chomet. The guy is a tyrant with a brilliant vision. This film will amaze anybody who sees it!
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Just to set the record strait: "les Triplettes..." is a cooproduction between France, Canada and Belgium with participation from BBC London. It is not just a French movie. And it is a GREAT ONE. The film was made almost entirely in Montreal, Canada by an exeptional team from France and Canada. There were couple of Belgians as well. True, the spirit of the film is French -after all, this is Sylvain Chomet who wrote, did the storyboard, designed all the main characters and directed the production. By the way, he did not draw the backgrounds(there is no such thing as "previous" backgrounds - for the French animation student), which does not make him less of a genius. For everybody who have doubts that an animated feature could be made captivating without a dialogue - just wait and see how Sylvain tells a story... This is unique. No doubt this film will make a history.
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Not like I wax enthusiastic about everything I see, but this trailer has some of the best animation I've seen in a long time.
Considering it's not full of lovely women, short skirts, and flashing panties, it's probably not going to be a movie for short-attention-span kids.
If you can't figure out what the story is about after reading the review and watching the trailer, you'll do better to stick to Disney and allowing people to spoon-feed you plots.
If you think the plot is stupid, don't worry. Maybe someday you'll be old enough to appreciate creativity. Till then, I hear there's a cartoon version of RAMBO coming out.
If you think it sounds boring from the trailer, stick to cartoon sex, it'll be more exciting. You've always got Sailor Moon, short skirts and panties, right?
For the rest of us who like what we see, we'll go watch the movie and have a good time. You weenies.
PS, chicks dig this kind of movie. Hint hint.
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