For lovers of your traditional animated film, Disney released last week its latest princess tale, “Tangled,” the story of Rapunzel with songs. For something entirely different, there is always “The Triplets of Belleville,” the 2003 animated movie written and directed by the French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet. Instead of a young girl escaping her evil stepmother, the story follows an elderly woman named Madame Souza who goes on quite the adventure when her cyclist grandson Champion is kidnapped by two French gangsters and made to race on a stationary bike for their gambling pleasure. The look is surreal and heavily stylistic, with very little dialogue. There is music, but of a distinctly European kind; when Madame Souza encounters the titular singing sisters, they improvise a jazzy number using a refrigerator, newspaper, vacuum and bicycle wheel as instruments. “The Triplets of Belleville” earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, despite a less-than-favorable representation of the United States – Belleville, where the gangsters run their empire, is clearly meant to be New York City. It might have won, too, for all its creativity and depth, had it not been up against “Finding Nemo.” “The Triplets of Bellevue” plays this Friday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater.