When I grow up I want to be an old woman

Went to see Belleville Rendezvous the other day. It is a surreal French animation which takes you to some strange old places.

I'm not, as I have said, always a great one for art, but there is a wonderful dog in it who behaves perfectly consistently however weird it gets, and it features the funniest corrective shoe in history.

And of course Madame Souza and the swinging, frog-eating Belleville Triplets themselves. Afterwards I said how wonderful it was to have a film -- albeit an animation -- where the four main characters were old women. How often does that happen?

Aha! someone pointed out: what about Calendar Girls?

No, no, that misses the *point*.

joella