Ernest & Celestine
Ernest et Célestine
Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
© 2010 Les Armateurs, Maybe Movies, La Parti, Mélusine Productions, STUDIOCANAL, France 3 Cinéma, RTBF
In the conventional world of bears, it is frowned upon to befriend a mouse. And yet Ernest, a large, marginalised bear, clown and musician, takes in Celestine, an orphan who has fled the underground world of rodents. These two loners support and comfort each other, thereby upsetting the established order.
Cast : Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner
Scenario : Daniel Pennac
Editing : Fabienne Alvarez-Giro
Music : Vincent Courtois
Scenario : Daniel Pennac
Editing : Fabienne Alvarez-Giro
Music : Vincent Courtois
Production : Didier Brunner, Vincent Tavier, Henri Magalon, Philippe Kauffmann, Stephan Roelants, Ivan Rouveure
Distribution : Studio Canal
Distribution : Studio Canal
During her lifetime, Gabrielle Vincent was always apprehensive about adaptations. When her beneficiaries finally agreed, the producer, who had loved Daniel Pennac’s Cabot-Caboche (Dog) contacted him to see if he would agree to write a screenplay, without even knowing that he had been in correspondence with Gabrielle Vincent for about ten years after she had first read Cabot-Caboche. The idea quickly took root and the screenplay was written. At the same time, a director was found in Benjamin Renner, author of the acclaimed award-winning short A Mouse’s Tale in 2007. Not feeling confident enough to direct a feature on his own, he was joined by two other filmmakers with very distinctive styles: Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier, authors of Pic Pic and A Town Called Panic. The script, which grew from and focused on the meeting of Ernest and Célestine, combined with Renner’s poetry and Patar and Aubier’s sarcastic humour, resulted quite simply in a small animated miracle." (Nicolas Thys; ecranlarge.com)