Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Roger Mainwood
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway
Synopsis:
The graphic artist Raymond Briggs looks back at the lives of his parents, from courtship to their deaths.
Review:
This admirable film is far more than a piece of family history or nostalgia; it is a social record of Britain through the momentous changes of the twentieth century. From the Victorian terraced properties that withstood the bombardment of the Blitz, but were affordable on the pay of a humble milkman of the time, to the political attitudes and humble aspirations of a working class couple who considered themselves more than working class, the Briggs story is like so many others, and as such encapsulates much that is complicated and contradictory about Britishness. The artist's crayon gets to the heart of the joys of life and traumas of death like no live action camera can, the images move with economy, but the voices of Broadbent and Blethyn imbue them with all the life they need. A triumph.
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Roger Mainwood
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway
Synopsis:
The graphic artist Raymond Briggs looks back at the lives of his parents, from courtship to their deaths.
Review:
This admirable film is far more than a piece of family history or nostalgia; it is a social record of Britain through the momentous changes of the twentieth century. From the Victorian terraced properties that withstood the bombardment of the Blitz, but were affordable on the pay of a humble milkman of the time, to the political attitudes and humble aspirations of a working class couple who considered themselves more than working class, the Briggs story is like so many others, and as such encapsulates much that is complicated and contradictory about Britishness. The artist's crayon gets to the heart of the joys of life and traumas of death like no live action camera can, the images move with economy, but the voices of Broadbent and Blethyn imbue them with all the life they need. A triumph.
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Roger Mainwood
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway
Synopsis:
The graphic artist Raymond Briggs looks back at the lives of his parents, from courtship to their deaths.
Review:
This admirable film is far more than a piece of family history or nostalgia; it is a social record of Britain through the momentous changes of the twentieth century. From the Victorian terraced properties that withstood the bombardment of the Blitz, but were affordable on the pay of a humble milkman of the time, to the political attitudes and humble aspirations of a working class couple who considered themselves more than working class, the Briggs story is like so many others, and as such encapsulates much that is complicated and contradictory about Britishness. The artist's crayon gets to the heart of the joys of life and traumas of death like no live action camera can, the images move with economy, but the voices of Broadbent and Blethyn imbue them with all the life they need. A triumph.