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Director:
Writers:
Sylvain Chomet (writer)
David Freedman (dialogue)
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Release Date:
27 May 1998 (France) more
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A starving gendarme, wasting away from hunger, is reduced to grabbing castoff snacks from fat American tourists... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 3 nominations more
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delightfully grotesque more (4 total)

Cast

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Jim Pidgeon ... (voice)
Michoue Sylvain ... (voice)
Andrea Usher-Jones ... (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Old Lady and the Pigeons
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Runtime:
France:25 min | UK:21 min
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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
delightfully grotesque, 20 December 2004
7/10
Author: didi-5 from United Kingdom

This wonderfully dotty short film from the creator of Belleville Rendez-vous, Sylvain Chomet, really is fantastic. It has an original storyline - a starving gendarme, some greedy fat pigeons, a pigeon-obsessed lady, and some wild dancing.

The animation puts its grotesque characters (which put me in mind of the drawings of Gerald Scarfe) into a world all of their own, where the gendarme fantasises about food, is irritated by pigeons, and eventually dresses up as one of the birds himself to continually visit the old lady for slap-up meals.

'The Old Lady and the Pigeons' is the epitome of bad taste cartoons, a darkly fun half-hour in the company of skewed figures and warped minds.

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