kberg
Joined Nov 1999
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This is a very bizarre visual and aural experience. One that animation fans will absolutely love. I was amazed. In French and a bit of English and no subtitles! But then, none are necessary. Sure-handed storytelling transcends any need for translation.
Big-screen animation takes another leap forward with The Triplets of Belleville, which packs staggering levels of craft and imagination into every last frame. By turns tender and pitch-dark, but always sublimely ridiculous, this trés French concoction was the only real competition for Finding Nemo in this year's animated-feature Oscar race.
Belleville is also a resounding call to shovel that dirt off the grave of hand-drawn animation. The caricature work is ornate and breathlessly bizarre, as if Fellini had come back from the grave and picked up a pencil. But the style and rhythms almost no dialogue, lots of sound effects and darkly comic set pieces are more reminiscent of the French filmmaker Jacques Tati. Belleville has the precision and detail of a Tati film, but it's much stranger and more frenetic. Like most great animated films, it takes full advantage of the format's otherworldly potential. Even if it's not your thing, chances are you've never seen anything like it.
Big-screen animation takes another leap forward with The Triplets of Belleville, which packs staggering levels of craft and imagination into every last frame. By turns tender and pitch-dark, but always sublimely ridiculous, this trés French concoction was the only real competition for Finding Nemo in this year's animated-feature Oscar race.
Belleville is also a resounding call to shovel that dirt off the grave of hand-drawn animation. The caricature work is ornate and breathlessly bizarre, as if Fellini had come back from the grave and picked up a pencil. But the style and rhythms almost no dialogue, lots of sound effects and darkly comic set pieces are more reminiscent of the French filmmaker Jacques Tati. Belleville has the precision and detail of a Tati film, but it's much stranger and more frenetic. Like most great animated films, it takes full advantage of the format's otherworldly potential. Even if it's not your thing, chances are you've never seen anything like it.
I was lucky enough to see "The Pianist" in London two nights ago with the entire English cast at the Odeon West End Theatre. This is a great film. Polanski just nails it... and doesn't go Disney with the ending like Spielberg did with Schindler's. Adrien Brody is amazing in the starring role. Incredible story of survival. The music will break your heart. I have never responded to classical piano in a movie as strongly as I did the other night.
Wonderfully put together. I didn't realize what it was going to be like when I walked into the screening last month at the Sundance Film Festival... but I wasn't disappointed. A diverse creative team created this one hour musical drama... but its such a melancholy story... its really unexpected to see the characters break out in song... Some of the songs are very moving. "One Night the Moon" is my favorite... the family singing together while putting the little girl to bed is a great scene. Am going to look for a soundtrack!