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Belleville Rendez-vous

7.5
14,267
Animation. Comedy. Drama Madame Souza, an elderly French woman, instills in her grandson Champion (for who she acts as his guardian) a love of cycling. As a young man, he does become a dedicated road racer with his grandmother as his trainer. During a mountainous leg of the Tour de France in which Champion is racing, he goes missing. Evidence points to him being kidnapped. Indeed, he and two of his competitors were kidnapped, the kidnappers who want to use the ... [+]
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
"'The Triplets of Belleville' will have you walking out of the theater with a goofy damn grin on your face, wondering what just happened to you (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"  POS
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"[It] may be the oddest movie of the year, by turns sweet and sinister, insouciant and grotesque, invitingly funny and forbiddingly dark. It may also be one of the best"  POS
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
"Sylvain Chomet doesn't need subtitles to tell a story that unfolds in a series of extraordinary images (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"  POS
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New York Magazine
New York Magazine
"Chomet's astonishing imagination conjures images you could swear you've seen in your dreams" POS
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer
"With a bit of Tintin and Tati, Charlie Chaplin and Wallace and Gromit echoing in the pacing and comic sensibility, Triplets of Belleville conjures up a world that's totally surprising and sublime." POS
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The Wall Street Journal
"A single seeing isn't enough to take in the eccentric marvels of The Triplets of Belleville, an animated feature by Sylvain Chomet that creates a visual language all its own." POS
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USA Today
USA Today
"[A] simple but captivating story"  POS
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AV Club
AV Club
"The film is best treated as a one-of-a-kind wonder: an ingenious contraption that dazzles, teases, attracts, and repels with all the mystery and sublimity of a miniature world" POS
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