The Academy Award for Best Animated Film has become a nice showcase for animated films that are made elsewhere. I grew up on the Disney style of animation and story telling, and I continue to be very fond of those films, but the French animated films that have made it to the final 5 in this category have been wonderful. It is a children's fable with a wise and grown up heart. The movie is about the friendship between a mouse and a bear has a simple story that even the youngest viewers could understand, yet it also possesses a refined, almost melancholy sense of goodness. It has things to say about the world, but it does so gracefully, without hitting you over the head with them.
Ernest and Celestine are from different worlds, and never the twain should meet. The problem is that neither of them got the memo on that. They are both outsiders within the social world of their own species, and yet they discover that they are perfect for each other. They are put on trial for the crime of befriending each other (although they are wanted for grand theft auto and some petty larceny), and i
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