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I like languages. I am good at some of them. I am terrible at others. I am terrible at French. I wish I was better, but I am not.
For those of you who remember my post in Ratatouille of how spacial and shape iconography can be/should be used within animation as a tool to communicate with the audience, I present The Triplets of Belleville as a striking if off-putting example of the same principle. It is as if the artists and directors set out on a task of making the shapes speak louder than the characters and then stretched them out to outlandish proportions. Champion is a skeleton with enormous thunder legs. The henchmen are blocks, and anyone not a main character is outrageously fat. The spacial communications of the Triplets of Belleville are actually a bit unnerving.
I will state that I loved the heart and soul that went into this amazing piece of Cinema. As long as movies like this exist there is always hope for moments of brilliance in a commercial world.
Ratings:
Tour de France fans: See it
Loved the Andrews Sisters?: See it
Fans of Music Land: See it
French: See it
On a scale of Dorian to Mixolydian, I give The Triplets of Belleville, 3.8 out of 5 stars.
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