Triplets of Belleville

who wrote the music for this film? it was fantastic, the best bit about the film no less, especially when she's playing her hoover. I heard it was the director. Is this the case?

Heard about this triplets film from my sister and am intrigued...

Amateur!st: you don't have to worry about it being in French. I think there were two lines that they actually translated into English. The rest doesn't even matter. You'll definitely be able to follow along.

also on bbc4 tonight is a film by aki kaurismaki 'The Man Without A Past' (21:00) which looks good and 'Etre et Avoir' (19:15) that great french documentary about the french schoolteacher.

andy

WATCH THIS IT IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS EVER!

Yes! I liked them...

Didn't this movie end on a very sad note? I can't recall exactly what happened (and I wouldn't spoil it if I did recall), but something about the ending is making me wary about ordering the DVD, like even though the film was good, I wouldn't want to have to see that ending again.

Maybe I'm confusing it with another film, tho.

Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis is pretty sad.
Neither this nor Tekkon Kinkreet are sad though IIRC. Can't think of what else that isn't some overhyped ghibli production or pixar work that's been notable recently

not sad in my opinion.

of the animated flicks i've seen, "grave of the fireflies" is the most depressing by a long shot. well, that's not recent. hmm.

wings of honneamise also pretty sad
and basically every UC era gundam, body counts be like damn

Iron Giant makes me cry BUCKITS when he says, "I.m Superman"......

IIRC Triplets of Belleville did not have a sad ending at all!

I only buy DVDs of shit that depresses me and makes me cackle hollowly at the hopelessness of all human endeavour so by that rule this must be a happy movie because I never did go get a copy

this movie rules btw

IIRC Triplets of Belleville did not have a sad ending at all!

It didn't? My failing memory must be early onset senility (not so early, maybe).

By the way:

Director's next film (which I predict will get a title change, at least in the U.S./U.K.):

"The Illusionist" is the second animated feature film by Sylvain Chomet, the director of The Triplets of Belleville, expected to be released in 2009. It is being made at his Edinburgh film studio, Django Films by an international group of animators. It is estimated to cost around £10 million and is being funded by Pathé Pictures.

The film will be based on an unproduced script that the French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati wrote in collaboration with famed screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière between Mon Oncle and Playtime. The script was passed to Chomet by Tati's daughter, Sophie Tatischeff, when Chomet was seeking permission to use a clip from Tati's 1949 film Jour de fête in Les Triplettes de Belleville. Tatischeff suggested an animated film as she did not want an actor to play her father.

The film will be based on an unproduced script that the French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati wrote in collaboration with famed screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière between Mon Oncle and Playtime.

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg

i am shitting myself! shit! is on myself!

Bruno is in my top five animated dogs.

I love everything about this movie, including the granny's lazy glass eye.

It's an outstandingly conceived and designed film, right down to the very smallest of details. I have to admit to feeling slightly so whatish at the end though, even though it certainly never bored me. I suppose I was a bit nonplussed at the amount of effort that gone in to producing something with no real emotional content.

> no real emotional content.

We disagree. Also, you are a crazy, crazy, crazy person.

I think the crux of it is it's hard to feel anything for the grandson, as he's such a completely neutral and passive character.

Can't explain it, can't defend it, probably shouldn't even admit it, but I can't stand this movie. It actively annoys me.

Je ne sais pas.
*Gallic shrug*

this movie is legit insane

This movie is fucking Lynchian. Wouldn't be surprised if I have nightmares tonight - the triplets are terrifying. Loved bits of it, the dog's dream in partic, and it looks like nothing else on earth, but the story is hardly gripping.

As with so many movies, I didn't see this until last night, long after all the hype had ended and everyone else moved on to newer, bigger, better things. I was happy I did see it. Both the sound design and the animation were amazing. Also, it made my wife and I burst out laughing at least half a dozen times. Bruno and the granny were very exactly conceived and realized.

The best trick in the movie was that, in spite of the fact that nothing in the plot made much sense and none of the characters said anything clearly enough to understand, I could follow what was happening at least 98% of the time. That is cartooning at its best, imo.

i still love the track where they use a hoover and bicycle wheel. played that out as part of a techno set at a rave once and people went mental.

right now i’m watching Triplets of Belleville at last (in honor of current TdF), which i thought would be odd to my eye and is a bit odder still.

the granny wheel truing/tensioning by tone and then raising a posse is funny to me as a 30 yr wheel builder. i def wouldnt build or tension by ear fwiw.

and ok the cabaret scene is mental and awesome. and also yes the grandkid is a cipher and i’m just “what does that mean about granny”?

OMG IT’S ABOUT ZWIFT

Saw it for the first time as well earlier this year. Think that was good just for the hints of Tati and the like which I wouldn’t have understood at the time.

yeah at release i didn’t have tati and many other refs. i plan to re-watch now, after grabbing more commentary, i think it would help a lot.

first trailer song is pretty fire lol.

I read Amerika by Kafka long after watching this and think now, much later, that there might be an affinity but it is based on memory and perhaps not accurate.