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Ghibli is back! And in fine form. After closing shop, Studio Ghibli co-produced
this film by Michael Dudok de Wit. De Wit, an Academy Award winning short
filmmaker, first caught the eye of the Japanese master Miyazaki with a short
film. And presented the chance at a collaboration, he made his first feature
length film. It is complete devoid of dialogue, save for a few screams,
universal in any language. The music is hauntingly magical, even though not
composed by Ghibli regular Joe Hisaishi. It is extraordinarily high pitched,
ethereal, other worldly. And the animation does transport you to another world.
It is a necessarily simple story without dialogue, straight out of
Castaway. It is actually an extraordinarily
lovely story once the eponymous Red Turtle is introduced. What it can show us
without telling us is very impressive. It is beautifully if simply rendered.
And continuing the theme of animals as the manifestation of God (see Two Lovers
and a Bear), there is the Red Turtle.
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