The Triplets of Belleville – (2003) Opening with a grainy, black-and-white musical revue featuring the female Triplets of Belleville singing among other acts, mimicking an old film on a tv broadcast, this is an unusual French animated feature that for 80 minutes relies almost entirely on visual information to propel the strange story of Madame Souza and her grandson Champion forward. Without dialogue (thus no need for subtitles), other than Bruno the dog’s frequent barking at the train passing by Madame Souza’s house, Champion grows up with his grandmother’s help to become a bicyclist in the Tour de France. A pair of look-alike, square-shouldered kidnappers grab Champion and two other cyclists during the race and take a ship for America. After following the kidnappers across the ocean in a paddle boat, Madame Souza and Bruno become guests of the now elderly Triplets of Belleville in search of her Champion.

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