Unapolegetically French in its references yet universal in its humor, "Belleville Rendez-Vous" is a sardonic feast of narrative invention and graphic caricature that swings to a nostalgic beat.

Madame de Souza is worried about her young nephew, Champion. Nothing interests him and he’s bored to death. One day, she discovers a pile of photos of the Tour de France and various cycling champions ...

“Belleville Rendez-Vous” represents another country heard from in the expanding world of feature-length animation. Directed by Sylvain Chomet, a Frenchman living in Montreal, it has a distinctly ...

In the early 2000's, the Canadian composer Benoît Charest started working on the score for an animated French film called The Triplets of Belleville. Little did he know that the film and one of his ...

Unapolegetically French in its references yet universal in its humor, "Belleville Rendez-Vous" is a sardonic feast of narrative invention and graphic caricature that swings to a nostalgic beat.

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