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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.78:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Interactive Menus, Scene Access, Featurettes, Music Videos, Theatrical Trailers
You've never seen anything like The Triplets of Belleville, a wildly inventive and highly original animated feature crowded with colorful characters and fantastic imagery. Kidnapped by mysterious, square-shouldered henchmen, a Tour de France cyclist named Champion is spirited across the ocean to the teeming metropolis of Belleville. His grandmother and faithful dog follow his trail and are taken in by a trio of eccentric jazz-era divas. The motley sleuths follow the clues to an Underground betting parlor and now the chase is on! Richly imagined, wildly inventive and acclaimed as one of the best films of the year, "TRIPLETS is terrific!" - Richard Corliss, Time Magazine.
Editor's Note
In this animated French film, a boy named Champion trains relentlessly for the Tour de France, with the help of his loyal grandmother and overweight dog, Bruno (who loves to bark at passing trains). When the big race comes, Champion and a few of his fellow racers are kidnapped by some box-shouldered thugs who spirit them off to Belleville (a surreal impression of 1930s-1950s Manhattan) where they are forced to pedal as part of a clandestine gambling operation. Bruno and Grandma set out across the sea in a paddle boat to rescue their boy, but once ashore they soon become lost, hungry and penniless--that is, until the frog-eating Triplets of Belleville, former scat-singing jazz prodigies turned experimental musicians, come to their rescue.Filled with inspired, twisted imagery, this nearly dialogue-free film is a crowd-pleaser of unusual power, with the strange, measured pacing of a dream, and a great soundtrack of bizarre, alternate-reality '30s jazz. It also offers a touching and believable evocation of a dog's life. A great throwback to the time before animation became dominated by CGI effects, TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is a very strange, very loving, and very French salute to obsession, affection, and persistence.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Audio: English, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Music Video Of The Academy Award Nominated "Belleville Rendez-vous" Song | | Bonus Trailer | | Scene Selection | | The Cartoon According To Academy Award Nominated Writer/Director Sylvain Chomet Featurette | | The Making Of The Triplets Of Belleville Featurette | | Three Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes With Scene Commentaries: Opening Sequence, Restaurant Performance, Tuning The Wheel |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 3/25/2008 |
| Running Time: 80 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 03231 | | UPC: 00043396032316 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Music | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English Dubbed, Spanish [CC], Spanish Dubbed, Music | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Sylvain Chomet - Director | | Sylvain Chomet - Writer | | Viviane Vanfleteren, et al. - Producer |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...[A] bracing blend of silliness and sophistication..." 11/27/2003 p.103New York Times
"...A tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief and unlikely sublimity..." 11/26/2003 p.E1 Los Angeles Times
"...THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE delights in the dazzling eccentricity of its uninhibited imagination....A truly out-there piece of comic animation, the most outlandishly visual film of the year..." 11/26/2003 p.C14 Entertainment Weekly
"...Utterly original....Chomet and his team of animators hand-draw countless precise, funny, and sophisticated details..." 12/05/2003 p.66 Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Chomet blends subtle wit, visual imagination and even a flair for suspense..." 12/01/2003 p.113 USA Today
"[T]he slyly humorous Triplets of Belleville is artful, engrossing and oddly touching." 11/26/2003 p.3D Chicago Sun-Times
"[I]t is creepy, eccentric, eerie, flaky, freaky, funky, grotesque, inscrutable, kinky, kooky, magical, oddball, spooky, uncanny, uncouth and unearthly." 12/26/2003 p.42 Total Film
"Comprised of nicotine-stained cells and very few words, BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS corkscrews the brain with a succession of super-skewed set-pieces..." 04/01/2004 p.120 |
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