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I'm hesitant to recommend this, since it's probably not playing where you live. Nonetheless:
The Triplets of Belleville is a delightful cartoon adventure. It's French (actually a French/Belgian/Canadian co-production, with some work done in Riga), but there's almost no dialogue, so I suspect it wouldn't have mattered much if we'd gotten the French rather than the English-language version. The background text--signs, newspapers, a newscast--is in French, and I understood enough to be pleased, at the end, that I had correctly interpreted who "Le President" was and, thus, the approximate time at which the movie is set.
Les Triplettes are a dance act, who we see at the beginning of the movie. The scene then shifts to a mother-and-son. She buys him two important gifts: a dog and a tricycle. He grows up to be a competitive cyclist, and the dog gets big and strong, and obsessed with trains.
The animation is excellent, both the more-or-less ordinary events and the adventures. Belleville deserves its name: it's both genuinely beautiful and genuinely urban. There's a wonderful chase scene, featuring some impressively square-shouldered villains. There are many frogs.
The Triplets of Belleville is a delightful cartoon adventure. It's French (actually a French/Belgian/Canadian co-production, with some work done in Riga), but there's almost no dialogue, so I suspect it wouldn't have mattered much if we'd gotten the French rather than the English-language version. The background text--signs, newspapers, a newscast--is in French, and I understood enough to be pleased, at the end, that I had correctly interpreted who "Le President" was and, thus, the approximate time at which the movie is set.
Les Triplettes are a dance act, who we see at the beginning of the movie. The scene then shifts to a mother-and-son. She buys him two important gifts: a dog and a tricycle. He grows up to be a competitive cyclist, and the dog gets big and strong, and obsessed with trains.
The animation is excellent, both the more-or-less ordinary events and the adventures. Belleville deserves its name: it's both genuinely beautiful and genuinely urban. There's a wonderful chase scene, featuring some impressively square-shouldered villains. There are many frogs.
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I also noticed that Amelie is on, Channel 4, I think. Gee, two whole things I want to see. Even the morning schedules, which used to be the programmers' favourite hiding place for things like Ken Burns documentaries are mostly full of repeats of children's cartoons that are already repeats of repeats, with occasional dubious history programmes for nutritional content (like eating celery).
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