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Binding: DVD
Publisher: Tartan
Publication Date:
Actors: Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas, Béatrice Bonifassi, 
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Studio: Tartan
AudienceRating: Suitable for 12 years and over
AspectRatio:
Formats: PAL, 
Language: English, Subtitled,
Language: French, Original Language,
Language: Portuguese, Original Language,
RegionCode: 2
RunningTime: 78 minutes
Package Dimensions: 0.58 x 7.1 x 5.42 inches
ReleaseDate: 2004-01-26

 
EditorialReview: One of the more surprising critical hits of 2003, Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendezvous is a French animation that combines occasional beauty and charm with sardonic grotesquerie. People have commented about its bitchy portrait of a USA where everyone is overweight and over-helpful; it is equally nasty about a provincial France, where everything is grey and nothing is convenient. A grandmother and her dog set out to rescue a cyclist who has been kidnapped by the French Mafia and is forced to race endlessly into a receding projected landscape; she is helped by a superannuated trio of female close-harmony chansonniers marooned in American poverty.

Nothing in this film is mere chance--almost everything we see turns out to be relevant. There is also little dialogue--most of the time, sound effects and music take its place, from the irritating squeak of a mechanic's breathing to the sublimity of Mozart's "Kyrie" as a storm rages at sea. Belleville Rendezvous uses the best of traditional animation techniques and modern technology to produce something sharply funny and beautifully composed; it is not quite like anything you have seen before. --Roz Kaveney
 

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