Ernest & Celestine
It is a beautiful work (that will play just as well whether sub-titled or dubbed), effortlessly engaging the hearts and minds of young and old alike.
Ernest & Celestine
ERNEST & CELESTINE will be presented in English for all showings before 6pm. All showings after 6pm will screen in French with English Subtitles.
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer - and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn't long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities. Fresh from standing ovations at Cannes and Toronto Ernest & Celestine joyfully leaps across genres and influences to capture the kinetic, limitless possibilities of animated storytelling. Like a gorgeous watercolor painting brought to life, a constantly shifting pastel color palette bursts and drips across the screen, while wonderful storytelling and brilliant comic timing draw up influences as varied as Buster Keaton, Bugs Bunny and the outlaw romanticism of Bonnie and Clyde. Bringing it all together is the on-screen chemistry between the two lead characters - a flowing, tender and playful rapport that will put a smile on your face and make your heart glow. Based on the classic Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, Ernest & Celestine is winner of the Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature, an Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature and winner of numerous festival prizes.
Genre
Animated
Web Site
Runtime
75
Language
French
Director
Stéphane Aubier,
Benjamin Renner
Cast
Pauline Brunner,
Paul Giamatti,
Patrice Melennec,
William H Macy,
Nick Offerman,
Megan Mullally
Awards:
Nominee, Best Animated Feature, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Animated Feature, Cesar Awards
Winner, Best Animation, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Jamie S. Rich, Oregonian
An adorable animated adaptation of Gabrielle Vincent’s popular children’s book, “Ernest & Celestine” depicts a world of bears and mice where the two species have a lifelong fear of one another propagated by urban legends and fairy stories. The main characters are an imaginative mouse who loves to ...
Played at
NoHo 7 11.15.13 - 11.21.13
Playhouse 7 3.07.14 - 3.20.14
Claremont 5 3.07.14 - 3.13.14
Town Center 5 3.14.14 - 3.20.14
Fine Arts Theatre 2.16.16 - 2.16.16
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