Sylvain Chomet’s Les Triplettes de Belleville is easily one of the great accomplishments of movie animation, and something that one can watch on repeat, discovering new features with every viewing. Now, I’d shared it’s pop song breakthrough hit a week ago, but here I want to talk about the movie, as a whole:
Welp… I found it an absolutely absurd, hilarious masterpiece for the ages. The caricatures are wicked-scorchingly-funny, and just utterly fascinating to look at and follow. The story has a ‘warped, Euro’ logic that I greatly appreciate, and despite this nominally being a French film, pretty-much everything is easily-understandable due to the Charlie Chaplin-esque pantomime and negligable vocalisations.
WP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triplets_of_Belleville
And now… catch it while you can, because it’s hard to believe the entire movie will be free to watch on YT for much longer. Word to the wise:
I got to enjoy this masterpiece in the CycloCinema. ;-)
Probably one of the best movies they could show there.
Ooooh, I so want to try that one day.
I really hope they had somebody in a black suit and sunglasses directly next to them. That would have been awesome =D
My god, that’s perfect! oO :D
So what happens if… too many people get to slacking / tired out on their bicycles? Does it cause power dips in the movie displaying properly…?
It has battery for ~10min so no dips. Also it can be powered by ~5 bikes and 3 are just “spare” or for changing riders.
I don’t know all the specifics about it but unintuitively the most power hungry are the speakers so maybe the sound cut off?
Thank you.
And pardon my asshole curiosity, but could this place perhaps be Dutch / Netherlands?No it was in Switzerland, Pedaleo bikepacking festival this summer.
I think the guys with the projection setup were from Spain.
I’ve been trying to remember the name of this film for a couple months. Thanks for this!
fun fact, the cyclists in the film were charactures of actual Tour De France cyclists of that era.
Haha, that’s awesome.
I really did love how funky this movie was. French animation is a whole different species.
What’s BD animation? This looks great! Thank you for sharing!
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Ahh I missed that, sorry dude. I use Eternity which is a great app and I’m thankful to the developer, but viewing the sidebar is a sort of “out of sight out of mind” situation. I came to this post from “All” so didn’t view the community.
Thanks for clearing that up!!
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