The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Directed by Sylvain Chomet
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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What critics compared The Triplets of Belleville to
The newbie director's aesthetic influences are top of the line: The Quay brothers' nightmarish visions of distressed puppets adrift in decayed landscapes; Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein's Oscar-winning 1989 short Balance; Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville; Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children; Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer's psychologically perverse fairy tales -- we're talking the greatest hits of gloomy, doomy European animation and hyper-stylized live action.
As studios close their traditional hand-drawn animation departments, we'll need more movies like this, like Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville, like the Nick Park films Chicken Run and the upcoming Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
I was reminded, at times, of the painstakingly detailed beauty of “The Triplets of Belleville,” but Moore has a more ethereal, rounded aesthetic all his own.