Belleville Rendez-Vous [2003] [DVD]

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Best Indie Animated Movies of All Time|Collider". Archived from the original on 16 December 2022 . Retrieved 12 January 2023. Sending up the eating habits of North Americans (whose Statue of Liberty brandishes a hamburger) as well as the French predilection for frog-related dishes, the director manages to pay homage to such cultural icons as the guitarist Django Reinhardt and French comic Jacques Tati. The latter, one feels, would have approved of the resourceful way a vacuum cleaner is used to make music.

BBC Four delivers crown to 'Triplets' ". Variety. 25 January 2004. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018 . Retrieved 19 April 2014. The Scottish-based acoustic trio of well-travelled musicians, who combine to produce fresh and exciting music with a broad European repertoire.

A SCOTTISH-based trio with a French-sounding but actually Edinburgh-derived name, Bellevue Rendezvous find inspiration across a wide arc that includes the Scandinavian countries, Galicia, Poland and Armenia as well as sources closer to home.

The plot dips and dives through elaborately drawn tunnels of invention to the city of Belleville, where organised crime and nostalgia for the music of the Thirties holds sway. Granny Souza, Bruno and the singing triplets make their stand against cloned gangsters who have kidnapped the bicycle boy for their own devious and deadly entertainment. Lost and confused in the threatening darkness of the great city, Madame Souza and Bruno encounter the Belleville Triplettes. In their youth, a glamorous close-harmony act, these three batty old ladies are now a bizarre jazz combo. Souza joins the band. At their very first gig, she discovers Champion is being held captive by the mafia Godfather himself!

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While tidying Champion's room, Souza discovers a book filled with photos of cyclists. She decides to buy Champion a tricycle, which finally allows Champion to indulge in his passion. After a few years of training, Champion competes in the Tour de France, but finds himself left behind in his exhaustion, and he is kidnapped by a pair of mobsters, who take him and two other contestants across the Atlantic. Souza pursues Champion on a pedalo to Belleville. On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the animal keepers were issued with rifles to deal with any dangerous animals who might escape if the gardens were bombed. A night shift was introduced to watch over the animals 24hours a day. A list of dangerous animals that was drawn up included 13lions, 6tigers, 2leopards, 1cheetah, 2 tigons, 3other small cats and several bears. Although the zoo's administrators succeeded in convincing the local authorities that any danger from the animals was minimal, primarily because the perimeter walls were so high, the keepers were replaced in their sharp-shooting role by soldiers who patrolled the grounds armed with tommy guns. [21] Sporting events became a permanent feature at Belle Vue after an athletics stadium was built in 1887. [85] Greyhound racing [ edit ]

James, Alison (17 February 2004). "Lumiere Awards puts spotlight on 'Triplets' ". Variety. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017 . Retrieved 19 April 2014. During the First World War the gardens were used by the Manchester Regiment for drilling, and a munitions factory complete with railway sidings was built. [20] The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: for Best Animated Feature, making it the first PG-13 animated film to be nominated in that category; and for Best Original Song ( Benoît Charest and Sylvain Chomet for the song " Belleville Rendez-vous", sung by Matthieu Chedid in the original version). The film lost the Best Animated Feature award to Finding Nemo. It also won the César for Best Film Music, [10] and as a co-production with Canada it won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture [11] and the BBC Four World Cinema Award in 2004. [12] See also [ edit ] The last grand firework display took place in 1956, on the theme of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men. [4] Circus [ edit ] Chomet's story of a determined, peg-legged, diminutive Portuguese granny, whose life is dedicated to the well-being of her dim, secretive grandson, from a leaning house beside a railway line in a French suburb around the time that Vincente Minnelli was shooting Gigi in Hollywood with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier, is a patchwork of bizarre and unforgettable moments, many of which involve a fat dog called Bruno who barks at trains and an ageing trio of singing sisters who make music with domestic utensils.

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Inglis, Simon (2004), Played in Manchester: The architectural heritage of a city at play, Played in Britain, English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-873592-78-6 Festival de Cannes: The Triplets of Belleville". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011 . Retrieved 9 November 2009. A young orphan boy, Champion, loves to watch TV, especially broadcasts by a red-hot jazz singing trio, The Triplets of Belleville, who belt out their toe-tapping numbers in the irresistible style of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club de France. Once grown up, Champion is a Tour de France racer but gets kidnapped en route by sinister mafia types; his gran and his fat, lazy dog Bruno come to Champion's rescue enlisting the help of the Triplets themselves, now elderly ladies. A 15-year-old elephant, Ellie May, had acquired an undeserved reputation for being dangerous, which made her extremely difficult to sell. Her food costs became difficult to justify, but Grayson refused to have her put down. Although he left the zoo in January 1978, Grayson returned frequently to care for Ellie May, the last animal left at the zoo. Eventually Rotterdam Zoo agreed to take her, and plans were made to transport the elephant to the Netherlands. Ellie May refused to budge however, and overnight developed pneumonia and heart failure. Grayson and veterinary surgeon, David Taylor, felt that she would not recover, and decided to call in a marksman to euthanise her. [43] a b c "Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester, England History", Parks and Gardens UK, archived from the original on 18 January 2012 , retrieved 20 July 2010