It is also enormously rewarding as a result. That "The Red Turtle" isn't your traditional animated film shouldn't really come as a surprise for anyone familiar with Studio Ghibli, which produced it.

The credit for script and design goes to de Wit, with Jean-Christophe Lie serving as the film’s chief animator. Watching “The Red Turtle,” one of this year’s five animated features ...

It is, put simply, like no other animated movie you’re likely to see this year. The setup for the film is one familiar from centuries of storytelling: After a raging storm tosses him from his ...

An unknown force prevents a castaway from leaving a desert island on a raft and a red turtle holds the key to his future. This is a beautiful movie that will really get under your emotional shell.

80 minutes. By Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post The Academy Award-nominated “The Red Turtle,” from Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit, is a sweet, surreal reverie of a film. The first non ...

I picked up some details that are included in the film. A: I don't know. In the next few years, I hope there may still be some room for a really nice surprise in the story to come. The Red Turtle ...

The film begins with a roiling sea ... It turns out this is no shark, but a big, beautiful red turtle that is thwarting our man’s dream of escape. But why? And how will this confrontation ...

Co-written by Pascale Ferran (Bird People), The Red Turtle begins as a simple tale of survival. After a violent storm — the first but not the last of the film’s remarkable depictions of nature ...

That film, it turns out, also caught the attention ... It’s always been this way.'” “The Red Turtle” wasn’t intended to be entirely free of dialogue, though there was never much to ...

The film recently earned five Annie Award nominations including best animated indie feature and best direction. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The Red Turtle got a boost in the awards race on ...