Saw this, for the second time, last night on BBC3 or 4. It will still be on Iplayer for any connoisseurs of animation. Although French, it has virtually no dialogue so that isn't a factor. And it's about bicycle racing. Of course it is extremely French in a lot of other ways too, which may not be to everyone's taste. But for pure gloomy hilarious surrealist weirdness it takes a bit of beating. Three hag-like sisters, a girl band in Belleville, live on frog stew after dynamiting the frogs in a pond, with roasted tadpole snacks... their music is good too especially when the lame grandmother heroine joins in with a bicycle wheel... The villains are the 'French mafia', whose cars - which appear relatively late in the film - are too delectable to describe.
The main thing is though that it's got Zero's dog in it as a central character.
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Belleville Rendezvous new
Belleville Rendezvous new
