Based on Raymond Briggs's book about how his parents met and brought him up,
Ethel & Ernest is as lovingly-drawn as Briggs's graphic novels. Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn are perfect voice casting for the parents and it's impossible when listening to them to not think about how the sweet and comically befuddled elderly couple in his
When the Wind Blows came about, for example.
The heart-felt pathos and wry observation of people's mannerisms are the film's strongest suit, the preoccupation with the war years less so, simply because it keeps on imposing over-exposed historical narrative over the author's personal human drama.
6/10
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