Synopsis
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.
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Cast
- Suzy FalkTriplet (voice)
- Lina BoudreauTriplet (voice)
- Betty BonifassiTriplet (voice)
- Michèle CaucheteuxTriplet (voice)
- Jean-Claude DondaGeneral Gaulle / Sports Commentators / Homeless (voice)
- Mari-Lou GauthierTriplet (voice)
- Charles LintonAdditional Voice (voice)
- Monica ViegasMadame Souza (voice)
- Michel RobinAdult Champion (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
Time
Triplettes is terrific…there's no competition for the fall's most imaginative delight. In that race, Triplettes can already take its victory lap. - 100
Christian Science Monitor
Children may enjoy it, aside from the youngest, who might find it too weird for comfort. Its main audience is adults, though. And not just any adults, but those in the mood for venturesome fare that's both surreal and hilarious. - 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The most joyously cinematic movie I've seen this year. Chomet's astonishing imagination conjures images you could swear you've seen in your dreams. - 100
Village Voice
The year's most ingenious and original animated feature. - 100
Los Angeles Times
Fast, funny, unexpected and uninhibited, The Triplets of Belleville may be animated, but it is also the product of an artistic vision every bit as rigorous as any lofty Cannes prize-winner. Hearing about a film this special isn't enough. It demands to be seen, and it generously rewards those who, like Madame Souza, let nothing stand in their way. - 90
The New York Times
May be the oddest movie of the year, by turns sweet and sinister, insouciant and grotesque, invitingly funny and forbiddingly dark. It may also be one of the best, a tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief and unlikely sublimity. - 88
Rolling Stone
It's comic, touching and a visual knockout. - 80
Variety
Almost completely dialogue-free but graced with terrific sound design and a swell score.
