Belleville Rendez Vous

This short little piece from Sylvain Chomet, made in 2003, is a fun enough little piece of work, though it is unlikely something that will be returned to all that often.
Like 'The Illusionist' it is nearly silent, and again much information is conveyed through a sense of the grotesque, of the extreme. This leads to some certainly aggressive images, in what is generally an alienated picture. The real lack of identification mixes with the use of the dog as an mediated device. The fact that what we have the closest relation to is something that is seen as utterly idiotic makes for a difficuly picture.
This picture is more primatively animated than 'The Illusionist', and doesn't wuite employ the same long shots. It also has less of a deeper sense of grief and character, the jokes here are clearly antecedents in the slightly off beat stereotypes, but the way they are used differently, that is in a different perspective, leads to a less thoughtful, but slightly more direct film.
So, we quite enjoyed this, though it wouldn't last too long.