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:
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.