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Triplets Of Belleville

Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.78:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Interactive Menus, Scene Access, Featurettes, Music Videos, Theatrical Trailers

You've never seen anything like The Triplets of Belleville, a wildly inventive and highly original animated feature crowded with colorful characters and fantastic imagery. Kidnapped by mysterious, square-shouldered henchmen, a Tour de France cyclist named Champion is spirited across the ocean to the teeming metropolis of Belleville. His grandmother and faithful dog follow his trail and are taken in by a trio of eccentric jazz-era divas. The motley sleuths follow the clues to an Underground betting parlor and now the chase is on! Richly imagined, wildly inventive and acclaimed as one of the best films of the year, "TRIPLETS is terrific!" - Richard Corliss, Time Magazine.

Editor's Note

In this animated French film, a boy named Champion trains relentlessly for the Tour de France, with the help of his loyal grandmother and overweight dog, Bruno (who loves to bark at passing trains). When the big race comes, Champion and a few of his fellow racers are kidnapped by some box-shouldered thugs who spirit them off to Belleville (a surreal impression of 1930s-1950s Manhattan) where they are forced to pedal as part of a clandestine gambling operation. Bruno and Grandma set out across the sea in a paddle boat to rescue their boy, but once ashore they soon become lost, hungry and penniless--that is, until the frog-eating Triplets of Belleville, former scat-singing jazz prodigies turned experimental musicians, come to their rescue.

Filled with inspired, twisted imagery, this nearly dialogue-free film is a crowd-pleaser of unusual power, with the strange, measured pacing of a dream, and a great soundtrack of bizarre, alternate-reality '30s jazz. It also offers a touching and believable evocation of a dog's life. A great throwback to the time before animation became dominated by CGI effects, TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is a very strange, very loving, and very French salute to obsession, affection, and persistence.

Features

	Interactive Menus
	Audio: English, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
	Music Video Of The Academy Award Nominated "Belleville Rendez-vous" Song
	Bonus Trailer
	Scene Selection
	The Cartoon According To Academy Award Nominated Writer/Director Sylvain Chomet Featurette
	The Making Of The Triplets Of Belleville Featurette
	Three Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes With Scene Commentaries: Opening Sequence, Restaurant Performance, Tuning The Wheel

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Columbia Tri-Star
	Release Date: 3/25/2008
	Running Time: 80 minutes
	Original Release Date: 2003
	Catalog ID: 03231
	UPC: 00043396032316
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Original Language: Music
	Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English Dubbed, Spanish [CC], Spanish Dubbed, Music
	Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
	Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1

Cast & Crew

	Sylvain Chomet - Director
	Sylvain Chomet - Writer
	Viviane Vanfleteren, et al. - Producer