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Wonderful new animated film, July 16 2004

"Triplets of Belleville" is for me a refreshing new film, one of the best to come out in a long time. It presents us not only a fresh method of storytelling, but reminds us of what animation is all about.

The storyline has already been discussed by other reviewers: an old woman watches as her grandson is kidnapped by the mafia (the French mafia, no less!) and follows them to the city of Belleville where she befriends the title triplets. Yet very little of this is done in words, and music is not always used to carry the scene. As the filmmakers said in one of the commentaries, some scenes could just as easily be carried by sound. The way they showed you what the characters were… Read more