This magnificent, sensitive and funny animated film about the lives of his parents ethel and ernest is a triumph. Welcome to the official ethel and ernest movie site. The film shows them dating, marrying and moving into their first house together. It tells the story of the lives of briggs parents from their first meeting in 1928 to their deaths in 1971. Ethel and ernest tells the story of raymond briggs parents picture.
Oct 29, 2018 the black cat is present at various parts of the film, such as when ernest builds a back yard bomb shelter. Ethelandernestmovies blog a blog about the making of ethel. The voice work by blethyn and broadbent is tremendous. Ethel and ernest has won the best feature film prize at the international animation festival chilemonos 2018. When world war ii breaks out ethel tearfully allows him to be evacuated to aunts in dorset whilst ernest joins the fire service, shocked by the carnage he sees. Animated in briggs signature style, this is a warm, quaintly funny and sometimes heartbreaking look at britain throughout the 20th century. Viewers call for heartbreaking ethel and ernest to win. They wind each other up with political outlooks the film places in. Jim broadbent and brenda blethyn star in the animated film, telling the story of ladys maid ethel and milkman ernest over four decades as they live through tumultuous events including the.
Visiting the park with their son raymond voiced by harry collett, ethel and ernest hold his hands as they walk down steps next to the balcony tea room. But, it ultimately succeeds in the same way that linklaters boyhood succeeds. Dorota kobiela and hugh welchman polanduk, early man dir. A couples love blossoms and endures through immense social change in the 20th century. The building stands inside wimbledon park and the steps lead from home park road sw19. Its an engaging film, but it leaves you with a feeling that there might be a deeper, darker, more specific story. Ethel and ernest are solid members of the working class, part of the generation brokaws greatest generation that lived through the tumultuous era of the twentieth century. This quintessentially british film is adapted from a graphic novel by the snowman creator raymond briggs. The other films in the competition were loving vincent dir. His father ernest takes a fancy to ethel when he sees her leaning out of a window and turns up with flowers for her. Brenda blethyn and jim broadbent are the voices behind ethel and ernest a raymond briggs story. Bbc animation ethel and ernest was a hit with bbc one viewers. This guide is useful for exploring topics including pshe education, history and english in addition to highlighting themes.
Since ethel and ernest were married for over forty years, it is doubtful the previous cats were all the same, but susie is the pet cat who remains for the rest of the film. What stops the film from sinking into mawkish nostalgia is the humour and level of detail. In an opening liveaction segment, raymond briggs introduces the story. Based on the awardwinning graphic novel by raymond briggs, this handdrawn, animated feature film is a heartfelt and affectionate tribute to raymonds own parents. The black cat is present at various parts of the film, such as when ernest builds a back yard bomb shelter. Living in london their entire lives, ethel and ernest endure two world wars, and witness incredible shifts in society, often struggling to adapt as the world changes around them.
Ethel and ernest has won the best feature film prize at the international animation festival chilemonos 2018 the other films in the competition were loving vincent dir. Later raymond as a teenager greets the cat as susie. 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. An entertaining and heartwarming story about two people who fall in love. In it, briggs charts the life of his parents, from their initial courtship in the late 1920s, right through to their old age in the early 1970s. Ethel and ernest is an animation based on raymond briggs book about his parents. They wind each other up with political outlooks the film places in fond opposition. It was adapted for the screen from the graphic novel by. It was broadcast on television on bbc one on 28 december 2016. In 1928 london milkman ernest briggs courts and marries housemaid ethel, their son raymond being born in 1934. Celia catunda, kiko mistrorigo, rodrigo eba brasil. It surpasses even his famous the snowman 1982 and, i daresay, is what he will truly be remembered for. Ethelandernestmovies blog a blog about the making of.