IMDb plot summary: 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.
Directed by Sylvain Chomet. Starring Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, and Michel Robin.
The Triplets of Belleville is a mostly-silent French animated film about a woman whose grandson is kidnapped on the Tour de France, and she has to figure out how to find him. This was my second wordless European animation film watched in the same day, and this probably suffered a bit in comparison to Flow, which I absolutely adored. The animation in this is a very deliberate style, but it happens to be one that I find ugly and hard to track. I genuinely thought for the first third of the movie that the grandson was dying, because his character design made him look deeply unwell, but nope, all the bikers looked like that, it was just a stylistic choice. The pacing is also a little strange for me -- about halfway through the film I looked at the plot synopsis for the story and none of it had even happened yet. I had high hopes for this one because so many people whose opinions I respect and often share have praised it, but ultimately I found myself bored for much of the movie, and I couldn't even enjoy the animation during those slower parts, because of how much I disliked its visuals. This one was not for me.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Triplets of Belleville < For Pete's Sake
The Triplets of Belleville > The Day of the Triffids
The Triplets of Belleville < No Country for Old Men
The Triplets of Belleville > Shane
The Triplets of Belleville > Marry Me
The Triplets of Belleville < Kindergarten Cop
The Triplets of Belleville < Batman: Under the Red Hood
The Triplets of Belleville < Coraline
The Triplets of Belleville > Run Lola Run
The Triplets of Belleville > My Favorite Wife
The Triplets of Belleville < The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Triplets of Belleville > Night Falls on Manhattan
Final spot: #2606 out of 3991, or 35%.
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