The Red Turtle
A still from The Red Turtle

The Red Turtle

classified PG

Studio Ghibli Summer

Film

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2022

Director
Michael Dudok de Wit
Cast
Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy
Details
80 mins, 2016, France
Primary language
None

Studio Ghibli’s first film by a non-Japanese director and made without Japanese artists since the studio was founded in 1985.

A man washes ashore on a remote island. Alone, famished, yet determined to break free from this Eden-like prison, the stranded sailor summons the strength to build a small raft, and sets off on a perilous journey into the open sea. But a mysterious red turtle prevents his escape, and out of nature's enchanted cycle, a unique bond blossoms.

Michael Dudok de Wit's visually stunning debut feature film encourages audiences to fall in love with a small tropical island on which a nondescript, mute castaway inexplicably finds himself shipwrecked in a film about the delicate balance of life, the beauty of death and the power of the landscape.


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