The friendship between a little mouse who didn’t want to become a dentist and a big bear who didn’t want to become a notary.
Ernest, a big marginal bear, with a cold and starving, is looking through garbage to find something to eat. Just when he’s ready to put the first thing he finds into his mouth, a piercing cry rings out! “Stooooppp!”. The little mouse he was going to swallow pleads: “if you don’t eat me, I will give you whatever you want most in the world! And it will be better for your health than all this crap.” And this is how Célestine, while trying to save her own life, turns that of Ernest upside down. From these unfortunate circumstances a friendship grows, fought by the world of mice (the upper world) and the world of bears (the underworld) but in vain: Ernest and Célestine will conquer all prejudices.
Daniel Pennac himself wrote the screenplay for the animated adaptation of Ernest et Célestine, his series of children’s books. A definite change of style for the Aubier/Patar duo, thus far mostly known for its image per image animation Belgian-surrealistic humour (Pic-Pic André, A town called Panic...). The music for the feature is from Goran Bregovic, Emir Kusturica’s favourite composer.
Direction
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Daniel Pennac
Walloon technicians
Vincent Patar (réalisateur), Luc Thomas (Ingénieur du son), Philippe Van Leer (bruiteur), Luc Thomas (mixeur), Manu de (mixeur), Marc Bastien (monteur son)
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