The Triplets of Belleville
The Triplets of Belleville· was the most delightful film I’ve seen in a long time. I give it my “best animated feature” award 2003-2004.
It’s best not to know too much about the story, I think, going into it, so I won’t say anything here. (Why am I even bothering to write about it at all, then? So you’ll go see it!)
My favorite little detail was in the Triplets’ apartment: just for a second or so, a poster for Jacques Tati·’s Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot· appears. The film pays homage to Tati throughout, and most likely alludes to other French films and directors that were beyond my surface knowledge.
If you want a more detailed description of the film, check out Roger Ebert’s review·. I have to agree with his hesitant characterization of the film as “Marquis de Sade meets Lance Armstrong.”
Anonymous Jan 28
Triplets of Belleville
John Jan 28
I think that this film was magnificent. I was awestruck by the images, and I couldn’t care less that they used GCI (However, I’m sure that it made the making of this film a lot easier and faster). I just wanted to scratch my dog’s belly after this film. I don’t know why. I just did! As I watched I thought of my life as it really is, and I thought of everyone’s life in the same way. There was a struggle. There was a magnificent sense of loneliness, and I felt that loneliness. The animation spoke to me in a way that asked me to simply look at the struggle and lonliness. I can’t describe it, but it did what other films could not – it made me yearn for real life. This film made me want to scratch my dog’s belly.
John Jan 28
I think that this film was magnificent. I was awestruck by the images, and I couldn’t care less that they used GCI (However, I’m sure that it made the making of this film a lot easier and faster). I just wanted to scratch my dog’s belly after this film. I don’t know why. I just did! As I watched I thought of my life as it really is, and I thought of everyone’s life in the same way. There was a struggle. There was a magnificent sense of loneliness, and I felt that loneliness. The animation spoke to me in a way that asked me to simply look at the struggle and lonliness. I can’t describe it, but it did what other films could not – it made me yearn for real life. This film made me want to scratch my dog’s belly.