2016 · animation · drama · fantasy
The Red Turtle
Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit1h 21m2016
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Our read: The Red Turtle (2016) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive animation · drama · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle animation / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- inventive
- signature
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“You want wordless island fable with painterly silence and life-cycle wonder.”
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