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Ventnor Bicycle Film Festival - Vive le Tour / Triplets of Belleville

Wednesday 7 7.30pmSeptember
2022

Film

Ventnor Arts Club

(former Nat West Bank)
13 High Street
Ventnor
PO38 1RZ

01983 857060

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Ventnor Bicycle Film Festival - Vive le Tour / Triplets of Belleville

Source http://www.ventnorartsclub.com/

Part of Ventnor Bicycle Film Festival 2022

Triplets of belleville

Triplets of Belleville (2003) is an animated that film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad.

Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey to find Champion, and stumbles across unlikely allies in the form of three sisters who are veterans of the vaudeville stage. Tracking down Champion's criminal captors, the quartet of old women use their wits to try and win the day.

Vive le Tour chronicles the 1962 Tour de France made by filmmaker Louis Malle. A short documentary about the 1962 Tour-de-France. Topics covered include: crowds of people and motorcycles, drinking raids and feeding, pileups, doping, "the charge," and the mountain stages.