The Tripletts of Belleville

northernneil

Got this DVD for Christmas and only just got round to watching it ......

anyone else seen it ?

very ..... french

very .... odd

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/

Graculus

Yes, we got it as a freebie with a newspaper a few years ago. I watched it with my 11 year old son and we both agreed that it was very, very weird - but we enjoyed it though. The animation is lovely and the dog and the granny are great characters...

all show no go

Yeah, bought this on DVD about 3 or 4 years ago. I think is a brilliant film.

There are many strange characters in it, but if you stick with it, it's a very satisfying watch.

Disney it ain't!

nwallace

If you liked it try to find "The Old Lady and the Pigeons"
The Illusionist is coming out very soon too.

northernneil

I think I liked it ......

.... I am still unsure !!

glad other people have heard of it, my mother in law bought it for me and she watched it first !

OffTheBackAdam

I got it a few years back, must rewatch it sometime.
It's marvelous!
Funniest bit's the old dear fishing!

nwallace

OffTheBackAdam wrote:

I got it a few years back, must rewatch it sometime.
It's marvelous!
Funniest bit's the old dear fishing!

Agree!
Didn't think you fished for Frogs though, shouldn't it be Frogging? Although that's damn close to Dogging.

MrChuck

I'm sure it was called Belleville Rendezvous when I saw it at the cinema!

gethmetal

BBC3 televised Belleville Rendezvous last year as part of their series on cycling. Other shows were that bloke building his Rourke up with bits from far-flung places and an excellent documentary on Tom Simpson.

ynyswen24

It's all about the bike and the Tom Simpson documentary are on BBC4 again next Sunday.

Gypsum_Fantastic

Watched it a few years back with a mate and my immediate comments were that it was a "deeply puzzling and unfulfilling experience, much like cracking one off into a sodoku book" - I stand by my comments :shock:

eskimo Joe

great film, but im not the kind of person to crack one off tot a soduko book

disquieting_museeuws

I saw it years ago and loved it, also got the DVD for my then-teen niece who also loved it.

I caught it on German TV a couple of years ago - bizarrely, the jazzy Belleville Rendez-Vous song at the beginning had been replaced by some 'oompah' monstrosity - are German musical tastes really that unsophisticated?

ColinJ

I watched it when it first came out but I was half asleep at the time so I didn't fully appreciate it but I remember liking what I did see...

(I must watch it again some time when I'm fully awake!)

nwallace

ColinJ wrote:

I watched it when it first came out but I was half asleep at the time so I didn't fully appreciate it but I remember liking what I did see...

(I must watch it again some time when I'm fully awake!)

Sounds almost like the first time I saw Watership down, I promptly turned the telly off and went back to sleep convinced it was just a drunken nightmare.