{"id":11317,"date":"2016-09-13T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2016-09-10T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T22:34:17","slug":"ernest-celestine-2012-stephane-aubier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11317","title":{"rendered":"Ernest & Celestine (2012, St\u00e9phane Aubier)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure it’s the cutest-ever story of an orphan mouse who befriends a hermit criminal bear, but it also has major subplots about teeth theft at the behest of a sinister orphanage.<\/p>\n

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Also there’s a family with a dentist mom who works across the street from her candy seller husband, which is funny and low-key cynical but they don’t seem to deserve the chaos Ernest wreaks upon their businesses.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful watercolor backgrounds, often fading away at the edges. According to the codirector the writing was influenced by Studio Ghibli (naturally) and Kikujiro<\/a><\/em> (ha!).<\/p>\n

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I was crazy about it, but something seemed off with the English voices. After just having seen The Little Prince<\/a><\/em> and feeling Jeff Bridges was just perfect as the inventor neighbor, I wasn’t feeling Forest Whitaker as Ernest. The movie is short, so I watched it again in French with original Ernest Lambert Wilson (the American in Not On The Lips<\/a><\/em>), which was perhaps an improvement, perhaps not, but either way a joy to see twice.<\/p>\n

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Sure it’s the cutest-ever story of an orphan mouse who befriends a hermit criminal bear, but it also has major subplots about teeth theft at the behest of a sinister orphanage. Also there’s a family with a dentist mom who works across the street from her candy seller husband, which is funny and low-key cynical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,2048,1921,34,1846,2039,302],"class_list":["post-11317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-bears","tag-dentist","tag-france","tag-mouse","tag-orphanage","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11377,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}