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	Sylvain Chomet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sylvain Chomet (born 1963) is a French animator and film director.
		Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio.
		Chomet has said in several interviews that he is currently working on two animated feature films, The Illusionist (set for completion in spring 2009), as well as The Tale of Despereaux (scheduled to come to American theaters Christmas 2008).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sylvain_Chomet (464 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sylvain Chomet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sylvain Chomet (1963 -) is a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (The technician who produces animated cartoons) animator and (The person who directs the making of a film) film director.
		Chomet moved to (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London in 1988 to work as an (The technician who produces animated cartoons) animator at the Richard Purdum studio.
		Since 1993, Chomet has been based in (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sylvain-Chomet (1253 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville
		Sylvain Chomet: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE was five years in development, which is an improvement on The Old Lady It was finished in half the time, though it's three times longer.
		Sylvain Chomet: I am going to make a film that is set in Les Halles, the Paris neighbourhood, Delete: entitled based on dance, not a musical but a film where dance comes into the story.
		Sylvain was so pleased with the result that he used 3D cyclists in mid-shot, though in the beginning they were only supposed to appear in the background.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/triplets_of_belleville/about.php (6462 words)

	Les Triplettes de Belleville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Song (Benoît Charest and Sylvain Chomet for the song "Belleville Rendez-Vous", sung by artist Matthieu Chédid in the original version) and Best Animated Feature.
		The sight of an exceedingly Django Reinhardt-like character playing along to the dancing 'Triplettes' (who in their old age continue to entertain in the form of a cabaret/skiffle act using household items [fridges, vacuum cleaners] as mad instruments) and the most dynamic animated car chase you're ever likely to see.
		Chomet freely admits to influences from the comic realms of the sitcom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Les_Triplettes_de_Belleville (483 words)

	movie review, In Film Australia
		The unique brand of animation stylised by writer/director Sylvain Chomet, coupled with her immensely thought provoking screenplay, draws together a kaleidoscope of ideas and creates a surreal oddball of cinema persistently infused with profundity and activity.
		Chomet sketches the human figure with loving detail of its imperfections, drawing together networks of strange and interesting looking faces before bringing them to life in the most unusual and interesting of ways.
		Chomet’s portrait of the human race is bleak but forgiving, framed simultaneously with compassion and cynicism.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/triplets.htm (543 words)

	Movies101.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		First, the good news: Sylvain Chomet's "The Triplets of Belleville" is absolutely unlike any film you've ever seen before.
		The pleasure comes from Chomet's moments of great visual and aural invention - Grandmother's tuning the spokes of his bicycle, and then playing the rim like a drum.
		Chomet is a great animator but he needed a better writer.
	www.movies101.com /TRIPLETS.HTML (393 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Cartoon duo prove that Scotland's a global draw
		French-born Sylvain Chomet and his producer wife Sally moved to the capital after falling in love with it during a trip to the Edinburgh Film Festival.
		Sylvain Chomet was born in France but made his first feature film, Belleville Rendez-vous, in Canada.
		The Chomets are working in association with producer Bob Last, who was instrumental in bringing Gillian Anderson and the period drama The House of Mirth to Glasgow a few years ago.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1955622005 (1007 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Belleville Rendez-vous
		Following in the baddies' path is a little lady, her plump pooch and three singing spinsters, a yesteryear sensation celebrated as "the triplets of Belleville".
		Chomet's short film The Old Lady and the Pigeons (1998) was nominated for both a César and an Oscar.
		Not only has Chomet concocted an ingenious plot and a magical landscape for his film, he has also managed to make even the most incidental character unforgettable - watch for a foppish, ingratiating waiter and a buck-toothed boy scout.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/belleville.shtml (386 words)

	For caricaturist Chomet, creator of 'Triplets of Belleville,' it's a long way from Disney
		Chomet grew up on Disney films (it's one reason he entered the cartoon profession), but as an adult he has learned to loathe the company's new movies, which he believes are clichéd and formulaic.
		Chomet took the job with Disney at a time when "The Old Lady and the Pigeons" was being accepted into some festivals and rejected by others.
		Chomet, who directed it, wrote the screenplay and 0rchestrated its ornate design, says young kids can appreciate the movie's animation and basic storyline, but "Trip" is really for adults.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/29/DDGOJ3UUIO1.DTL&type=movies (1105 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Evgeni Tomov
		Sylvain Chomet, the visionary French filmmaker of The Triplets of Belleville, didn't make it to the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
		I remember looking for a small commercial place to rent with Sylvain Chomet to start the preproduction as well as being involved in presentations to Telefilm Canada for the financing of the project.
		I have been deliberatly cheated or screwed which onee you prefer, over the credits of this film by the director,(knowing Sylvain Chomet it was predictable) and I tried to get over this since the release of the film at "Le Festival des Films du Monde" in Montréal.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/stuv/tomov.html (1436 words)

	FILM QUARTERLY - The Triplets of Belleville, Review by Richard Neupert
		In Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville, as in the earlier film, there is no attempt to follow Disney-esque, generic story structures or to mimic the editing or camerawork of live action.
		Chomet creates a rich and coherent world that moves at a delirious pace, while his visual world owes a great deal to specifically French contexts, including 1930s music, Jacques Tati, the Tour de France, poster art, and comic books.
		Chomet is able to establish the family's new routine in a few shots: The dog Bruno barks at the commuter trains stopping outside his window, while he waits for the grown Champion to complete his bicycle training under the watchful eyes of Souza, who blows her whistle to set the pace.
	www.filmquarterly.org /issue_5803_right.html (1322 words)

	slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - The Triplets of Belleville
		Not a single frame of Sylvain Chomet's retro aesthetic has been tampered with—the transfer is clean but every deliberately washed-out backdrop and moving image still suggests that the film was telegraphed from the '40s.
		And considering the emphasis Chomet puts on sound and how he uses it to emphasize space in the film, it's probably no surprise that the Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks features some killer surround effects.
		"The Cartoon According to Director Sylvain Chomet" is positively bizarre—a not so tongue-in-cheek Chomet waxes on three subjects (drawing, animation, and the film's triplets), but I can't get past the seriousness with which he treats his blue pencil with the eraser at the end.
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=350 (664 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
		Proof positive that heroism can be found in the most unlikely of packages, Chomet's tale follows the diminutive Madame Souza, a Portuguese grandmother with a club foot, as she crosses land and sea to rescue her cyclist grandson from the clutches of the sinister French Mafia.
		Chomet depicts Souza's devotion to her grandson matter-of-factly, without calculation or cheap sentiment.
		According to the film's press notes, Chomet (an Oscar nominee for the 1998 animated short "The Old Lady and the Pigeons") lists Disney, French comedian Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin, and Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer, among others, as major influences on his work.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=138698&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (464 words)

	Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville / Belleville Rendez-Vous) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Without Chomet’s drive and self-confidence, this film would probably never have seen the light of day, and we would have been denied the pleasure of a spectacular piece of animation.
		Chomet’s only other work to date was a short animated film, La Vieille Dame et les pigeons, which earned him a certain amount of recognition but nothing like the esteem Les Triplettes de Belleville has given him.
		Chomet’s main concern appears to have been the characterisation — this is certainly the area where the film is most successful.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Les_Triplettes_de_Belleville_rev.html (599 words)

	Animation Nation Bulletin Board: "Triplets" director takes a stand
		Chomet has proven that a high-quality and financially successful animated feature can be created without the support of a major studio.
		Chomet wrote a great article on the basic idea that non-creatives can't be allowed to have any say on how to make a cartoon.
		I wish Chomet luck in the future, but I hope he spends more time looking for a "cute" story (that actually has a beginning, middle and end and characters you care about) to tell next time and less trying to prove his superiority over the rest of us.
	www.animationnation.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=007852 (3339 words)

	Sylvain Chomet @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sylvain Chomet was born in 1963 in Maisons-Lafitte, France.
		In 1991, Chomet started work on his first animated film project, The Old Lady and the Pigeons, with backgrounds designed by Nicolas de Crécy.
		In early 1997, Sylvain Chomet published Ugly, poor and sick, again with Nicolas de Crécy.
	www.filmbug.com /db/343837 (356 words)

	The Triplets of Belleville
		Depending on what he does in the future, Sylvain Chomet may be another distinct voice in animation.
		Chomet uses what many people have forgotten, that animation is first and foremost a visual art form.
		Chomet has created his own, weird world where characters are either stick-thin or very fat.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/triplets_of_belleville.html (544 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - The Triplets of Belleville
		The population is an absurdist portrait of Americana—bloated citizens balloon in slow motion down the street, living to consume, a fact to which a briefly glimpsed and twistedly reworked Statue of Liberty readily attests (she holds up a dripping ice-cream cone and clasps a cheeseburger to her chest).
		The Triplets themselves, magnificent creations and Chomet's triumph, embody this crazed remembrance with their frantic, scatterbrained, organic entertainments.
		Chomet opens the film with a vision of this past, a "newsreel" in sepia tones that captures the Triplets, singing and dancing celebrities from another generation, in their prime, perfectly aligned in voice and movement and grinning into the "camera" with maniac glee.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=926 (402 words)

	Sylvain Chomet, filmmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The film is directed by Sylvain Chomet, who started his career as a comic-strip author before moving to London to learn animation.
		Chomet: It was a pretty big budget for an animated film in Europe -- around €10 million ($11.5 million).
		Chomet: The film isn't in any language really because there's no dialogue apart from one line at the beginning and another at the end.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/interviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1899364 (995 words)

	BBC - collective - belleville rendez-vous interview
		As director Sylvain Chomet explains, “You are just doing two seconds of animation a week, like pedalling a lot but not moving much.” It’s a nightmare that the lonesome figure at the centre of the film, Champ, is caught up in during the movie’s finale.
		The story took 15 years from development to realisation, and when Chomet says of his childhood, “I wasn’t biking but I took a pencil and actually never stopped drawing,” you believe him.
		Chomet cites influences from Tin Tin to Black Adder to Nick Park, but the truth is, this film’s like nothing else you’ll see.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A1157348 (530 words)

	Cannes Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		And, it could very well be that Sylvain Chomet might stop by tonight for the public screening of his animated opus, Les Triplettes de Belleville.
		In 1991, Sylvain Chomet was nominated for the Oscars for best short animation film with his imaginary whodunnit The Old Lady and the Pigeons.
		Sylvain Chomet talks about his influences: “My main influences came from graphic novels, Anglo-Saxon animation — Nick Park — and silent movies interpreted by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
	www.festival-cannes.org /perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=3121929 (840 words)

	DVD Times - Les Triplettes de Belleville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Realism is the last thing on Chomet’s mind with this film, with all the characters and even the settings being exaggerated to the point of being bizarre, with designs that border on the grotesque.
		Animation by Sylvain Chomet — featurette - A personal favourite of mine, this brief 4-minute featurette is basically Chomet sitting at his kitchen table talking about his philosophy on animation character design, backing it all up with on-the-fly drawing demonstrations.
		Chomet talks a lot about technique and the atmosphere of each piece, but once again I’m afraid my French simply isn’t good enough to catch everything he says.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=10549 (2555 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Sylvain Chomet: The Triplets of Belleville (2003) / Columbia TriStar DVD May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sylvain Chomet: The Triplets of Belleville (2003) / Columbia TriStar DVD May 2004
		The Triplets of Belleville is a wildly inventive and highly original animated feature by French animator Sylvain Chômet, crowded with colorful characters and fantastic imagery.
		The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2003, and it received a standing ovation.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/chomet/belleville.html (605 words)

	Computer Graphics World - Illusions of Grandeur
		Chomet single-handedly drew all the storyboards for the 80-minute film to set the scenes and style the characters, a process that took six months.
		Chomet kept his hand in as well, animating Bruno the dog and the waiter, in particular.
		Chomet expects to use 3D tools for his next film as well, but more for lighting than for objects.
	cgw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=198458 (2849 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Oscar nominee sets up Scottish studio
		The man responsible is Sylvain Chomet, the French fim-maker behind Belleville Rendez-vous, who has just relocated his operation to Edinburgh.
		Chomet plans to re-set it in Edinburgh and the Western Isles.
		Chomet will be relying on his local producing partner Mark Cousins, who has turned to directing and producing since leaving the directorship of the Edinburgh film festival in 1997.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1316198,00.html (468 words)

	Amazon.com: The Triplets of Belleville: DVD: Jean-Claude Donda,Monica Viegas,Charles Linton,Michèle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sylvain Chomet's "The Triplets of Belleville" can best be described as an oddball silent film that relies on its soundtrack to give it shape and its offbeat animation to give it character.
		The renditions of "Belleville Rendezvous" are catchy and differentiated by the individual "performances." Chomet's use of a sepia tone palette creates the atmosphere of another era when vaudeville was in decline, gangsters on the rise, and gambling in smoke-filled rooms an attraction.
		Chomet's fascination with obesity (Grandma, Bruno the dog, and most of those living in Belleville) and its extreme opposite, anorexic-like thinness (the adult Champion, the triplets, and even the ocean liner that transports Champion) gives the film a sense of extremes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001IN0MQ?v=glance (2630 words)

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