"Triplets of Bellevue"

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I just saw the new animated movie "Triplets of Bellevue". The movie is based on a young boy that
grows up to race in the Tour de France. It is a comedy and is outstanding. One of the best cycling
films to come

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Sorry that should be The Triplets of Belleville

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Where is it playing? Just on the coast, or will it make it to "flyover" country?

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Where is it playing? Just on the coast, or will it make it to "flyover" country?

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Let me say this about the film - while it was definitely interesting, it is about as much a bicycle
movie as was Harold and Maud.

There is essentially no speach so the fact that it is mostly in French makes no difference. The
version I saw was "dubbed" which means that TWO sentences were in English.

It is a cartoon with very stylized characterizations and some of them are shockingly accurate such
as the bicyclists laying along the road gasping like fish out of the water.

Surely the producer/director was a bicycle racing fan from the late 50's or so.

I was glad to go see it but I wouldn't see it a second time.

Tom

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This wonderful film has been showing in New York for a few months. It is one of those films with
great word of mouth -- and it won the NY film Critics award for best animation. It is (as is all
great animation) highly stylized, relies on little or no dialog (it is in french, but with common
french word that everyone understands), and tells a wonderful story of a grandmother raising her
grandson who seems perpetually bored until she buys him a tricycle. He becomes addicted to cycling,
and it consumes his whole life.

There are many training scenes that will bring a smile to anyone who has spent any time seriosly
training on a bicycle. The scenes -- with the grandmother acting as coach and being dragged along
behind her grandson on a trycycle, all the while pacing him with a shrill whistle, while he powers
his way up one of the many hors categorie climbs that populate this film -- are priceless.

During the tour the grandson gets kidnapped.....but I will not divulge anymore.

I would expect this to become a cyling cult film.

Cheers,

Ben

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Let me say this about the film - while it was definitely interesting, it is about as much a
bicycle movie as was Harold and Maud.

But "Harold and Maude" had a mid-sixties Jaguar XKE hearse. You don't see that every day, do ya?

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This wonderful film ... There are many training scenes that will bring a smile to anyone who has
spent any time seriosly training on a bicycle. The scenes -- with the grandmother acting as coach
and being dragged along behind her grandson on a trycycle, all the while pacing him with a shrill
whistle, while he powers his way up one of the many hors categorie climbs that populate this film
-- are priceless.

I thought the grandma only hung on going downhill ! She kept pace going uphill while riding a tri-
cycle and simultaneously holding an umbrella and blowing a whistle - one of the many deliberate
statements about the obsessive nature of the sport regardless of one's true abilities ?

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- one of the many deliberate statements about the obsessive nature of the sport regardless of
one's true abilities ?

Agreed.

Great movie, lots of laughs.

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... it is about as much a bicycle movie as was Harold and Maud.

=v= How many movies can boast the following:

o Someone finding his/her true calling, liberty, joy,
and (*ahem!*) optimal physique with a bicycle?

o Someone truing a wheel at the dinner table?

o A bicycle-powered record player?

o The absolute pinnacle of computer-generated imaging, finally being used for the noblest purpose
possible: animating the movements of bicycles?

o Le Tour?

o A butcher's shop window display featuring a moving stuffed pig on a bicycle with tires made from
links of sausages?

o A snippet from Jacques Tati's _Jour_de_Fête_?

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I was glad to go see it but I wouldn't see it a second time.

=v= I saw it twice, each time surrounded by bike freeeks. :^) <_Jym_

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But "Harold and Maude" had a mid-sixties Jaguar XKE hearse. You don't see that every day, do ya?

=v= I love movies where trees get saved and cars get smashed. But that's just me. :^) <_Jym_

My mistake. You are right...and for week afterwards I swear I could hear that whistle everytime I
went for a ride.

Ben

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This wonderful film ... There are many training scenes that will bring a smile to anyone who has
spent any time seriosly training on a bicycle. The scenes -- with the grandmother acting as
coach and being dragged along behind her grandson

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trycycle, all the while pacing him with a shrill whistle, while he

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are priceless.

I thought the grandma only hung on going downhill ! She kept pace going uphill while riding a tri-
cycle and simultaneously holding an umbrella and blowing a whistle - one of the many deliberate
statements about the obsessive nature of the sport regardless of one's true abilities ?

This film isn't at all accurate -- there aren't any needles or weird foods in it...

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My mistake. You are right...and for week afterwards I swear I could hear that whistle everytime I
went for a ride.

Ben

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This wonderful film ... There are many training scenes that will bring a smile to anyone who
has spent any time seriosly training on a bicycle. The scenes -- with the grandmother acting as
coach and being dragged along behind her grandson on a trycycle, all the while pacing him with
a shrill whistle, while he powers his way up one of the many hors categorie climbs that
populate this film -- are priceless.

I thought the grandma only hung on going downhill ! She kept pace going uphill while riding a tri-
cycle and simultaneously holding an umbrella and blowing a whistle - one of the many deliberate
statements about the obsessive nature of the sport regardless of one's true abilities ?

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I was glad to go see it but I wouldn't see it a second time.

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=v= I saw it twice, each time surrounded by bike freeeks. :^)

My wife went and saw it last night (and quite enjoyed it). One comment she made was that there were
a number of things in the films she would not have understand or found amusing a couple years ago.
i.e. Before I would babble on endlessly about bicycle things to her.

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Then don't post like that and maybe you'll find some friends who aren't animated cartoons. And since
when did Henry go out with you?