Ethel & Ernest

Ethel & Ernest

  • Director: Roger Mainwood
  • Writer: Raymond Briggs,Roger Mainwood
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Luxembourg
  • Language: English, German, French
  • Release date: February 20, 2018
  • Also known as: Ethel and Ernest
  • Ethel and Ernest is a British hand-drawn animated film directed and written by Roger Maywood, with the voices of Brenda Bryce and Jim Broadbent. The film was released at the London Film Festival on October 15, 2016.
    Based on Raymond Briggs' picture book Ethel and Ernest, the film tells the life story of an ordinary British couple who have been together for more than 40 years from their first encounter and love in 1928 to their death in 1971.   .

    Details

    • Release date February 20, 2018
    • Production companies British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), British Film Institute (BFI), Ffilm Cymru Wales

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $179,227

    Movie reviews

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    • By Trystan 2022-12-18 01:30:58

      element record

      There are no routines, the ordinary is true and warm.

      It was my first time to write a film review, and the reason why I tried to write it was that the family has caused a lot of topical discussions at the moment, involving the influence of the original family, the status of the marital relationship, and the generation gap...

      This hand-painted film shows the story of Ethel and Ernest's love and hand in hand for a lifetime. However, according to the family (marriage)...

    • By Harley 2022-12-09 18:23:44

      The story of a London family

      Before watching this film, I stumbled across a comment that it was the British version of "Parents Love". So I watched this film with a desire to understand the life of ordinary foreign families.

      In fact, the overall story of this movie is very simple. It is nothing more than the story of a man and a woman from acquaintance to falling in love, getting married and having children and finally dying. Such "templated" stories take place in every country in the...

    • By Lorine 2022-12-01 17:53:08

      Be more cautious about having children after reading this

      This is a very warm movie. Two people are still in love with each other, because they often greeted each other by the window and got to know each other, and then they married and had children and lived an extremely ordinary life.

      Ethel & Ernest

      Ordinary is not ordinary,...

    • By Garfield 2022-11-19 01:53:36

      A good marriage is just gentle and interesting, and the rest of your life "has me"

      Based on the real experiences of his parents, Raymond tells the story of Raymond's parents from meeting each other, falling in love, getting married for 41 years, and finally passing away one after another.

      No matter how old you are, please always believe in love

      In London in 1928, Ethel was almost 35 years old...

    • By Jean 2022-11-15 21:36:54

      "London Family" 8.0

      Ethel stood at the window, shaking the dust off the rag. Outside the window, a young man on a bicycle passed by by chance, thinking he was greeting him, so he stopped the car playfully and waved. The maid blushed and quietly hid behind the curtain.

      Since then, I have always waited at that point and that window, occasionally disappointed, but mostly happy. Day by day, he suddenly knocked on the door with flowers in hand, cleared his...

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    • By Lila 2023-08-21 14:05:15

      Another 44 years of a family, a simple and beautiful love story like a fairy...

    • By Imelda 2023-08-19 14:09:14

      Birth, old age, sickness and death, reincarnation. How many charming past events left only a few photos in the end. The film reflects the life of ordinary people, but also the life of most...

    • By Delia 2023-08-19 02:15:25

      The chronicle of parents' love, the tenderness is always flowing. The life of an ordinary London family over the past century mirrors the magnificent journey of World War II. The hand-painted lines are exquisite, and the details are particularly well-drawn. Incorporating the parents' personalities, dealings with others, getting along with each other, and disputes over political opinions into daily life, the short 90 minutes seems to have witnessed the old couple's lifetime nostalgia. A lifetime...

    • By Irma 2023-08-01 14:12:54

      The hand-painted history, with a few telephotos, outlines half a hundred lives. Perhaps, most of our lives are enriched in countless first times, and then return to the last silence. I love you, the best definition is that I will always be here, with you, waiting for...

    • By Andreanne 2023-07-28 16:04:39

      A movie about the lives of two people, based on a true story, tells the story of Essel and Ernest meeting and accompany. It is ordinary and trivial, warm and charming. The hand-drawn animation outlines the details to the extreme and spreads the emotions to the most extreme. Jia, uses the time span to describe the changes of a family of three, and eloquently describes the era of the British working-class family, which is delicate and...

    Movie plot

    In London in 1928, Ernest, a dairy worker, passed by the window of an upper-class home on a bicycle, and came across Ethel, a maid who was opening the window and shaking ashes. Ernest, who was riding by, mistakenly thought she was greeting him, and happily took off his hat and saluted. For the next few days, the two of them were waiting for a "hello" as if they had made an appointment. Later, Ernest directly came to visit with flowers...
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    Evaluation action

    The film tells a story that is almost invisible, as if flipping through Briggs' family photo album, witnessing every key moment of the family's half-century. The British historical background, intertwined with war and turmoil, was treated as a light background by an attitude of forbearance and restraint. There is no need to highlight and exaggerate the fears and pains experienced by family members in the years, watching the whole film...
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    Movie quotes

    • Ethel Briggs: I could have married a deep-sea diver.

      Ernest Briggs: Well, why didn't ya?

      Ethel Briggs: Because I didn't love him.

    • [first lines]

      Raymond Briggs: [voice over] There was nothing extraordinary about my Mum and Dad, nothing dramatic, no divorce or anything, but they were my parents and I wanted to remember them by doing a picture book. It's a bit odd really, having a book about my parents up there in the best seller list among all the football heroes and cookbooks. They'd be proud of that, I suppose, or rather probably embarrassed too. I'd imagine they'd say, "It wasn't like that," or, "How can you talk about that?" Well, I have, and this is their story.

    • [last lines]

      Raymond Briggs: [with Jean, looking at the full grown pear tree in Ethel and Ernest's back yard] I grew it from a pip.