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Les Triplettes de Belleville
(The Triplets of Belleville)
Directed bySylvain Chomet
Produced byDidier Brunner
Paul Cadieux
Regis Ghezelbash
Colin Rose
Viviane Vanfleteren
Written bySylvain Chomet
StarringBéatrice Bonifassi
Lina Boudreault
Music byBenoît Charest
Distributed byDiaphana Films (France Theatrical)
Sony Pictures Classics (US Theatrical)
Tartan Films (UK)
Release date(s)11 June 2003 (France)
29 August 2003 (UK)
November 26, 2003 (US, limited release)
Running time78 Minutes
CountryFrance
Belgium
Canada
UK
LanguageFrench
Budget$2,000,000
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Les Triplettes de Belleville is an award-winning 2003 animated feature film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It was released as The Triplets of Belleville in North America, and as Belleville Rendez-vous in the UK. The film features the voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, and Monica Viegas; although there is some dialogue, the majority of the film story is told through song and pantomime. The film was highly praised by audiences and critics for its unique (and somewhat retro) style of animation. It was an international co-production between companies in France, Belgium and Canada.

The film satirically pokes fun at national stereotypes and clichés foreigners spread about French and Americans. It laughs at the stereotype of the French (for example their alleged obsession with the Tour de France, or their so-called fondness for eating frogs) as well as the image foreigners have of Americans in their allegedly exaggerated obesity and lewd manner. The film features no spoken dialogue per se, though some spoken words (such as Tour de France radio commentary by Robert Chapatte and a speech by Charles de Gaulle on evening TV) are included sporadically. French people speak with an "old" accent and American people speak with a Quebecer accent.

Plot

Following a 1930s-style cartoon parody featuring the singing Triplettes of the title (Violette, Blanche, and Rose, whose names are loosely patterned on the colours of the French flag) in their heyday, as well as caricatures of Django Reinhardt, Josephine Baker, Yvette Horner, Charles de Gaulle and Fred Astaire, the story focuses on Madame Souza, an elderly woman raising her orphaned grandson Champion.

Seeking to pull him out of his funk, she buys the child a tricycle, and as the years pass he achieves such excellence as a cyclist that he enters the Tour de France. Unfortunately he and two other riders are kidnapped and brought to the Belleville neigborhood of Paris (the inhabitants of Belleville represent caricatured 1950s-era American stereotypes, but the city itself is portrayed as a cross between Paris, Montreal and New York City) where a gangster forces them to pedal all day on a bicycle-based gambling machine located in the bowels of the Belleville French Wine Center. With the aid of the family dog Bruno, Madame Souza sets off on a pedalo journey to the city of Belleville. There she meets the Triplettes, now aged and decrepit but still performing, and the four women set out to rescue Madame Souza's grandson.

Influences

Chomet admits the influence of the sitcoms. There are also references to the French director Jacques Tati's films Jour de Fête and Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, whose combination of pantomime with sound effects is an influence on The Triplets of Belleville.

Citroën vehicles influenced the design of the vehicles in the film: the mobsters' getaway cars are stretched versions of the Citroën 2CV, and the vehicle 'Madame Souza' uses whilst her grandson is in the Tour de France is a Citroën HY van.

The film's music is inspired by that of the 1920s, and includes both a character reminiscent of Josephine Baker and an Django Reinhardt-like character who plays along to the dancing 'Triplettes'.

In the liner notes of the soundtrack CD, Benoît Charest says that his music ideas stemmed from his desire to see if he could make a song using a refrigerator, a vacuum, and a piece of paper. Indeed, these "instruments" show up in the film and the soundtrack.

Awards

The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (Benoît Charest and Sylvain Chomet for the song "Belleville Rendez-vous", sung by Matthieu Chédid in the original version). It also has won the César for Best Film Music, and as a co-production with Canada it won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture.

See also

  • List of animated feature films

External links

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Sylvain Chomet (born 1963) is a French animator and film director.

Biography

Born in Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, he studied art at high-school until he graduated in 1982. In 1986 he published his first comic, Secrets of the Dragonfly.
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Paul Cadieux is a Canadian film and television producer. He won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for Les Triplettes de Belleville.

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  • Zixx Level One (2004) (executive producer)
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Sylvain Chomet (born 1963) is a French animator and film director.

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Born in Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, he studied art at high-school until he graduated in 1982. In 1986 he published his first comic, Secrets of the Dragonfly.
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Benoît Charest was born in 1964 in Canada.

He is a composer and guitarist.

Probably his best known piece of work is the soundtrack for Les Triplettes de Belleville in 2003, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for the title song.
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Sylvain Chomet (born 1963) is a French animator and film director.

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