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You failed to mention one of the greatest duos in the Franco-Belgian tradition: François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, authors of the magistral "Les Cites Obscures" series, featuring a series of fantastic cities (Schuiten is the son of architects).
The one named "Brüsel" takes a particular poignance in light of the recent terrorist atrocities.
You keep calling it a comic. Is it a comic or a film? These aren’t the same thing.
And Triplets of Belleville was a slow trodging mess, as is every single French animated film I’ve ever seen besides the recent Little Prince, which was delightful despite its frenchness. This film looks frantic and so fast paced as to feel you’re watching it in fast forward judging by the trailer, and wow those are some of the ugliest character designs I’ve seen in a long time. To compare this to a Miyazaki or Pixar film without explaining the comparison is insulting to both, frankly, because the tone and style appear to be nothing like either. Lastly, if you’re going to include a trailer, use the English version or at least one that has subtitles. The percentage of fluent French speakers in this country is low, and while Verge is accessible to the entire world, it is predominantly targeted at the US audience. Programming for that audience would probably be a good idea.
You keep calling it a comic. Is it a comic or a film? These aren’t the same thing.
maybe you should spend some of your precious time to explain us idiots what the difference is, then ? how good does it feel to point a mistake and not correct it ?
delightful despite its frenchness
can you give the french people a break for a second ? take a long walk and tune down you french hatress a bit… you haven’t even seen the movie you already have an opinion about it !
the comparison is insulting
the only one insulting here is you. i can definitely see why the author compares it to Miyazaki (flat colors, animation style, epic story, etc.). if anything it’s a compliment to this movie not an insult to Miyazaki.
You keep calling it a comic. Is it a comic or a film? These aren’t the same thing.
I don’t call it a comic. It’s a film based on the work of a comic artist (not one specific comic, just his work) and in the narrative style of some specific French comics authors.
if you’re going to include a trailer, use the English version or at least one that has subtitles
There’s an official subtitled version linked below, but we decided not to use it because it has sound problems. It’s hard to make out the dialogue because it’s mixed too low below the music and effects. The film doesn’t have this problem, so I don’t know why the trailer does, but we didn’t want to give people the impression that the film itself is badly mixed.
But I watched and reviewed the French version because the English version wasn’t available yet, and again, we didn’t want to give people the wrong impression.
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You failed to mention one of the greatest duos in the Franco-Belgian tradition: François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, authors of the magistral "Les Cites Obscures" series, featuring a series of fantastic cities (Schuiten is the son of architects).
The one named "Brüsel" takes a particular poignance in light of the recent terrorist atrocities.
By fazalmajid on 03.25.16 5:34pm
You keep calling it a comic. Is it a comic or a film? These aren’t the same thing.
And Triplets of Belleville was a slow trodging mess, as is every single French animated film I’ve ever seen besides the recent Little Prince, which was delightful despite its frenchness. This film looks frantic and so fast paced as to feel you’re watching it in fast forward judging by the trailer, and wow those are some of the ugliest character designs I’ve seen in a long time. To compare this to a Miyazaki or Pixar film without explaining the comparison is insulting to both, frankly, because the tone and style appear to be nothing like either.
Lastly, if you’re going to include a trailer, use the English version or at least one that has subtitles. The percentage of fluent French speakers in this country is low, and while Verge is accessible to the entire world, it is predominantly targeted at the US audience. Programming for that audience would probably be a good idea.
By Cash907Censored on 03.26.16 8:19am
maybe you should spend some of your precious time to explain us idiots what the difference is, then ? how good does it feel to point a mistake and not correct it ?
can you give the french people a break for a second ?
take a long walk and tune down you french hatress a bit…
you haven’t even seen the movie you already have an opinion about it !
the only one insulting here is you.
i can definitely see why the author compares it to Miyazaki (flat colors, animation style, epic story, etc.).
if anything it’s a compliment to this movie not an insult to Miyazaki.
By ramlongcat on 03.28.16 8:38am
I don’t call it a comic. It’s a film based on the work of a comic artist (not one specific comic, just his work) and in the narrative style of some specific French comics authors.
There’s an official subtitled version linked below, but we decided not to use it because it has sound problems. It’s hard to make out the dialogue because it’s mixed too low below the music and effects. The film doesn’t have this problem, so I don’t know why the trailer does, but we didn’t want to give people the impression that the film itself is badly mixed.
Similarly, the English-language trailer is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utn3AuutXVk
But I watched and reviewed the French version because the English version wasn’t available yet, and again, we didn’t want to give people the wrong impression.
By Tasha Robinson on 03.28.16 1:30pm
I’m intrigued, but not a fan of the art style. The characters and the backgrounds don’t look attractive.
By NoUseForMonkeys on 03.26.16 5:26pm
Here is the trailer with english subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EAIBivxveg
By Meaculpa on 03.26.16 5:27pm
Awesome review. I’ll catch this one for sure.
By Max Carnage on 03.27.16 4:01am
From the creators of "Daria"….
By pabliwiwi on 04.13.16 10:09pm