A sweet, handsomely-told animated film about a bear (Ernest) and a mouse (Celestine) who form an unlikely friendship in a France where the bear population (living above-ground) and the mouse population (whose cavernous world is underground) co-exist with quiet hostility. Mouse children are taught to fear the hungry, evil bears. Bears fear the mice, who in mass numbers will eat their food AND their cubs with their sharp incisors. But when the soft-spoken, artistic Celestine helps to find the starving Ernest (his mountain hibernation disrupted by hunger) some much-needed food ... and Ernest does her a favor in return ... both find themselves on the most-wanted lists of the police forces from both their worlds. Among the high-profile, almost painfully colorful/computerized animated films up for Oscar, this one plays like an elegant, enchanting watercolor hanging sublimely on the wall of the Louvre. Lovely. (Note: please see ONLY in the original French, w/English subtitles, if possible!) (rated PG) ****1/2
ERNEST & CELESTINE trailer
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