Cycling while watching a movie!

smacl · 02-09-2010 12:25pm #1

Just saw this on facebook, may be of interest to cyclists looking for an evening out. Saw the film on the beeb a couple of months ago and loved it.

This is a first for Dublin, what a cool idea, share it on your page peeps!!

The last event of mobility week and on "European no car day", the street is to be closed for the day and night. The idea is to show what we can do when cars are off the streets.

Its such a cooool concept, there will be some seating from the local pubs, but bring something soft to sit on if you want to sit in front of the film on the ground, and wear warm ...clothes. The power for the projector is from a cycle generator and the audience will participate by cycling its six bikes.

The film features the voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, and Monica Viegas; there is little dialogue, the majority of the film story being told through song and pantomime. It tells the story of Madame Souza, an elderly woman who goes on a quest to rescue her grandson Champion, a Tour de France cyclist, who has been kidnapped by the French mafia for gambling purposes and taken to the city of Belleville. She is joined by the Triplets of Belleville, music hall singers from the 1930s, whom she meets in the city, and her obese hound, Bruno.