Three humorous fables about farm and forest animals featuring exquisite animation. By the makers of Ernest & Celestine.
Firstly, who’s going to deliver baby Pauline to her future parents – the stork, the pig, the rabbit or the duck? Secondly, trouble ensues when three chicks hatch from the eggs that fox has stolen. Are the chicks a tasty snack for the fox and the wolf or are they fox’s cubs? Are they chicks or young foxes like their parent? And thirdly, which of the animals will be able to save Christmas?
“I started imagining the story when I was little. My father took me to visit a farm that was equipped with an incubator filled with hens' eggs. When the farmer told us that the eggs were ready to hatch, I wanted to stay there to see what would happen. My father had no desire to wait around for so long, so, to convince me to leave, he told me that if I were the first thing the chicks saw, they would think I was their mother. /…/ I agreed to leave, to flee these overwhelming responsibilities, but this anecdote stayed in my head, along with the burning question: “If you suddenly found yourself the adoptive mother of chicks, should you teach them to behave like humans, or like chickens?” That concept continued to develop in my mind. Later, I came up with the idea that the situation would be funnier if it were a fox that had to raise the chicks.” (Benjamin Renner)
Benjamin Renner
Studied at the La Poudrière, a French school of animated film. He co-directed his first animated feature film, Ernest & Celestine, with Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier. The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales marks his second feature film.
filmography (selection) (B. R.)
2008 La queue de la souris (short)
2012 Ernest et Célestine (Ernest & Celestine)
2017 Le grand méchant renard et autres contes (The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales)
Patrick Imbert
Contributed to Ernest & Celestine as chief animator and has most recently animated April April and the Extraordinary World (Avril et le Monde truqué), which was featured at the Slovenian Animateka Festival. The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales marks his directorial debut.
filmography (P. I.)
2017 Le grand méchant renard et autres contes (The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales)