Ethel & Ernest (film)

Ethel & Ernest
Poster
Directed by Roger Mainwood
Produced by
  • Camilla Deakin
  • Ruth Fielding
  • Stephan Roelants
Based on Ethel & Ernest
by Raymond Briggs
Starring
Music by Carl Davis
Edited by Richard Overall
Production
company
  • Lupus Films
  • Ethel & Ernest Productions
  • Melusine Productions
  • Cloth Cat Animation
  • BFI
  • Film Cymru Wales
  • Film Fund Luxembourg
Distributed by BBC
Release date
  • 15 October 2016 (2016-10-15) (London Film Festival)
  • 28 December 2016 (2016-12-28)
Running time
 86 minutes[1]
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Ethel & Ernest is a British animated biographical film directed by Roger Mainwood. The film is based on the graphic memoir of the same name written by Raymond Briggs, and follows Briggs' parents, Ethel and Ernest, through their period of marriage from the 1920s to their deaths in the 1970s. It was broadcast on television on BBC One on 28 December 2016.[2]

Plot

The film details the marriage of Ethel and Ernest Briggs from the 1920s to the 1970s, as they live through extraordinary events occurring in that period.

Cast

Production

The film was originally to be produced by John Coates, notable for producing The Snowman. When Coates died in 2012, Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding (Lupus Films) were then hired to help complete the film.[4] The voice cast for the film was revealed on August 3, 2015.[5] The film was made of 67,680 hand-drawn individual frames.[6]

Release

The film made its official debut in the 60th BFI London Film Festival. The film made its theatrical premiere in the U.S. at the Nuart Landmark Theatre in Santa Monica, California, on December 15, 2017.[6]

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an average rating of 97%, based on 30 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Gentle, poignant, and vividly animated, Ethel & Ernest is a warm character study with an evocative sense of time and place."[1] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "ETHEL & ERNEST (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Smith, Reiss (December 28, 2016). "What time is Ethel and Ernest on? Cast, plot and trailer for new Raymond Briggs film". Express. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "A Feature Adaptation of Raymond Briggs' 'Ethel and Ernest' Is In the Works". Cartoon Brew. August 6, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ "This hand-drawn animated film of Raymond Briggs' Ethel and Ernest looks just lovely". Digital Arts Online. August 3, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Voice Cast Announced for 'Ethel & Ernest' Feature". Animation World Network. August 3, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  6. 1 2 McLean, Tom (December 13, 2017). "'Ethel & Ernest' Makes U.S. Theatrical Debut". Animation World Network. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Ethel & Ernest Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
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