UPDATE: the DVD of Belleville Rendez-vous is available from amazon.co.uk on pre-order, released on the 26th January.
This delightful and bizarre animated french film is one of the best I have seen this year. Belleville Rendezvous, originally released as Les Triplettes de Belleville in France is an exploration of the realtionship between a child and his grandmother. It is also a looney adventure with fantasty scenes of huge cities, shoes that eat people and dogs that dream.
The soundtrack is great fun too. Lastly the website has a storyboard, games to play and musical postcard to send. It is a good movie tie-in site, really giving the feeling of the film, without completely giving away the plot.
Wonderful movie, and I even liked the dog, which is saying quite a lot for me!
Lucy
Saw the film today and thought it was excellent. Didn't really know what it was about or what it was trying to say but the a few of the scenes were staggering, in particular : the tall boat leaving the harbour and the subsequent chase by the pedaloe, cycling uphill etc. But what really made it for me was the fawning waiter, he was just superb. Not quite as good as "Spirited Away", but a close second.
Complete captured the Citroen 2cv, not forgetting to mention the DS! Beautiful from beginning to end. Hope everyone remembered to stay to the end of the credits though.....
great film. the dog IS real. It's almost like you can touch it.
didn't stay to the end of the credits unfortunatly was bustin gfor a wee
The ONLY thing worth watching on telly over Christmas,this animation was refreshingly dark.
Amazing animation
Tremednous... Mind blowing under the influence of the magical mushroom...