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The Triplets of Belleville

Original title: Les triplettes de Belleville
  • 20032003
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 20m
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7.7/10
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
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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 Asta... Read allWhen 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.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.
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    • Sylvain Chomet
    • Sylvain Chomet
  • Stars
    • Michèle Caucheteux(voice)
    • Jean-Claude Donda(voice)
    • Michel Robin(voice)
    • Sylvain Chomet
    • Sylvain Chomet
  • Stars
    • Michèle Caucheteux(voice)
    • Jean-Claude Donda(voice)
    • Michel Robin(voice)
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    • 324User reviews
    • 164Critic reviews
    • 91Metascore
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    • Nominated for 2 Oscars

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    Michèle Caucheteux
    • Triplet #3
    • (voice)
    Jean-Claude Donda
    • Le Géneral de Gaulle
    • (voice)
    • …
    Michel Robin
    Michel Robin
    • 'Champion' adulte
    • (voice)
    Monica Viegas
    • Madame Souza
    • (voice)
    Dirk Denoyelle
    • Les commentateurs Sportifs
    • (voice)
    • …
    Graziellia de Villa
    • Madame Souza (Englsh version)
    • (voice)
    Noël Baye
    • 'Champion' adulte (English version)
    • (voice)
    Suzy Falk
    • Triplette
    • (voice)
    Nicole Shirer
    • Triplette
    • (voice)
    Germaine Charest
    • Triplette
    • (voice)
    Helen Wambolt
    • Triplette
    • (voice)
    • …
    Evelyn Snow
    • Triplette
    • (voice)
    • …
    Ron Séguin
    • Triplette
    • (voice)
    • …
    Helga Van Der Heyden
    • Additional voice
    • (voice)
    • (as Helga Van der Heyden)
    Jeron Amin Dewulf
    • Additional voice
    • (voice)
    • (as Jeron Dewulf)
    Jef Tips
    • Additional voice
    • (voice)
    Hendrik Van Eycken
    • Additional voice
    • (voice)
    Emmanuel Biront
    • Additional voice
    • (voice)
      • Sylvain Chomet
      • Sylvain Chomet
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    • Trivia
      Among the anti-Disney riffs in the film are a Mickey-shaped turd in a toilet, and a wallet-picture of a character in Disneyland with a lollipop that says SUCKER.
    • Goofs
      When the two waiters are running to the Mafia in the restaurant, the left-hand waiter's hair color is black, but in the next take his hair is gray.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Madame Souza: [voice over] Is that it, then? Is it over, do you think? What have you got to say to Grandma?

      [cut to Champion as an old man watching TV]

      Champion: I think that's probably it. It's over, Grandma.

    • Crazy credits
      After the credits have rolled we see the Pedalo rent guy waiting on the beach, looking out to sea and checking his wrist watch.
    • Connections
      Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #30.4 (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Piaf Song
      Lyrics and music by Sylvain Chomet

      Performed by Béatrice Bonifassi

    User reviews324

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    definitely Different
    This animated feature by Sylvain Chomet was seriously weird. The visuals were like no other movie I've seen and even now, weeks after I've seen it they still haunt my imagination. In structure the story is quite conventional – Madame Souza trains up her geeky grandson to be a top-line cyclist (a very French ambition) but while he is competing in the Tour de France he is abducted by criminals who remove him to `Belleville' on the other side of the Atlantic. M. Souza goes to find him and after many adventures…well, you know the rest. There's plenty of chasing about on Belleville's streets and freeways in very French looking vehicles that look like stretch limo versions of the immortal Citroen 2CV. Belleville itself is a curious amalgam of New York, Montreal and Paris, and seems to owe something to Fritz Lang's `Metropolis'.

    The eponymous triplets are three former 30s singing stars now reduced to playing in cheap cafes, busking and eating frog's legs, of which Belleville seems to have an ample supply. They take M de Souza in and help her in her quest without any great benefit to themselves.

    I did think it might help to appreciate this movie if you were French. There is virtually no dialogue (though plenty of singing) but there seem to be numerous references presumably satirical to various French national obsessions and preoccupations. What is the joke is not always clear to an outsider. Is there any significance in M Souza's originally being Portuguese? (She actually bears a close resemblance to the English cartoonist Giles's Grandma). Are top cyclist just nervy greyhounds with huge leg muscles? Do the French see themselves as svelte and Americans as all grossly obese? Are the French self-conscious about being typecast as frog-eaters? Are Citroen really planning a stretch limo version of the 2CV? I don't know, but then I don't need to.

    Definitely different.
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    • Jun 26, 2004

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      • February 13, 2004 (United States)
      • France
      • Belgium
      • Canada
      • United Kingdom
      • Latvia
      • United States
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      • Official site (Russia)
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      • Portuguese
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      • Vivi Film
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    • 1 hour 20 minutes
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      • Dolby Digital

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