Ethel & Ernest (film)

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Ethel & Ernest
Ethel & Ernest poster.jpg
Poster
Directed by Roger Mainwood
Screenplay byRoger Mainwood
Based on Ethel & Ernest
by Raymond Briggs
Produced by
  • Camilla Deakin
  • Ruth Fielding
  • Stephan Roelants
Starring
Edited byRichard Overall
Music by Carl Davis
Production
companies
  • BBC
  • Lupus Films
  • Ethel & Ernest Productions
  • Melusine Productions
  • Cloth Cat Animation
  • BFI
  • Ffilm Cymru Wales
  • Film Fund Luxembourg
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Vertigo Releasing
Release dates
  • 15 October 2016 (2016-10-15)(London Film Festival)
  • 28 December 2016 (2016-12-28)
Running time
94 minutes [1]
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Luxembourg
LanguageEnglish

Ethel & Ernest is a 2016 British animated biographical film directed by Roger Mainwood. The film is based on the 1998 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]

Contents

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 3 August 2015. [5] The film was made of 67,680 hand-drawn individual frames. [6]

The film's soundtrack has a score by Carl Davis, but also uses songs of the period featured relevant to scenes of the film by Bert Lown, Al Bowlly, Ambrose and his Orchestra, Joe Daniels and his Hotshots, Florence Desmond, Jack Hylton, Gracie Fields, Charles Penrose, Juliette Greco, The Shadows and Dave Berry, and closes with an original song "In The Blink Of An Eye" written and performed by Paul McCartney. [7]

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 15 December 2017. [6]

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an average rating of 97%, which an average of 7.5/10, based on 35 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." [8] 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". [9]

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References

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  2. ↑ Smith, Reiss (28 December 2016). "What time is Ethel and Ernest on? Cast, plot and trailer for new Raymond Briggs film". Express. Archived from the original on 13 October 2023. Retrieved 1 February 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. 6 August 2015. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "This hand-drawn animated film of Raymond Briggs' Ethel and Ernest looks just lovely". Digital Arts Online. 3 August 2015. Archived from the original on 14 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "Voice Cast Announced for 'Ethel & Ernest' Feature". Animation World Network. 3 August 2015. Archived from the original on 13 October 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. 1 2 McLean, Tom (13 December 2017). "'Ethel & Ernest' Makes U.S. Theatrical Debut". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  7. ↑ soundtrack Paul McCartney original song released on Ethel & Ernest soundtrack - Music-News 20 October 2016 accessed 2 March 2024.
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