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This film bears absolutely no resemblance to Japanime or any Disney movie, and is undoubtedly the best animated feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members...
Apparently Sylvain Chomet didn't get the news. The French comic-strip artist spent five years making Les Triplettes de Belleville (also known as Belleville Rendez-vous), about an old woman who raises her grandson to be a Tour de France champion. There's a dog, some bike-napping mafiosi and three old chanteuses whose diet consists entirely of frogs they catch by tossing hand grenades into a nearby stream. Vous guessed it by now: Triplettes is terrific...
...Ozon's Swimming Pool, she antagonizes and arouses older novelist Charlotte Rampling by sunbathing in the nude and bringing louts home to stay over. Neither film is a masterpiece, but both address the envy of old souls contemplating young flesh. Amid the cinematic dross, a jewel emerged: Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes de Belleville (Belleville Rendez-Vous). This animated feature, about an old woman who battles the French Mafia to retrieve her kidnapped godson, possessed what other Cannes entries lacked: a vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save...
...football but wins too. Having won the League Championship and Football Association Cup last season, they are now on a run of 27 unbeaten league games. Frenchman Wenger has an enviable ability to spot talent, get it cheaply and nurture it. His buys of French players like Thierry Henry, Sylvain Wiltord and Robert Pires, Swedish star Freddie Ljungberg and Brazilians Edu and Gilberto Silva have fashioned a side that has supplanted Manchester United as the most exciting team to watch, and at a fraction of the cost. Where United paid nearly $47 million for one defender, Rio Ferdinand, Wenger snapped...
...word `partnership' implies equal power," said Patrick Sylvain, a student at the Graduate School of Education. "But I see it as the U.S. moving in as the new power. I hope that the commitment to economic growth in Africa is a real one, and not a lopsided attempt to exploit African markets...