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The Red Turtle is a 2016 animation drama fantasy film, directed by Michael Dudok de Wit, starring Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson and Baptiste Goy.
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- posts span Dec 24, 2016 to Oct 26, 2026
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60 of 87 · most liked firstFinally watched The Red Turtle and okay now I have to go and rethink my whole life, thanks Mr de Wit.
positive · AI labelView post →"I should get that movie The Red Turtle, and then never watch it" - a thought I have apparently acted on twice so far
neutral · AI labelView post →THE RED TURTLE (2016) - Michael Dudok de Wit "The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds."
neutral · AI labelView post →IT'S TURTLE TUESDAY 🐢 📅 (7/15/2025) Red turtle from movie The Red Turtle (2016) #turtletuesday2025
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in unrelated news: The winners of the Annie Awards' lifetime achievement award, the Winsor McCay Award, are: - Michaël Dudok de Wit (Father and Daughter, The Red Turtle) - Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Verse, LEGO Movie, Clone High) - Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, HTTYD, Wild Robot)
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m such a massive chatterbox, but I really love stories that have limited dialogue. Films that just let you soak in the world they’ve created. The Red Turtle is kind of my ideal film in that way. I also ADORE the unsettling feel of Skinamarink and Beyond the Black Rainbow.
positive · AI labelView post →The next Studio Ghibli movie is The Red Turtle, which I just read a summary of and it promises to be as fucked up, if not moreso, than When Marnie Was There. It is also, I believe, the only Studio Ghibli movie to not be directed by a Japanese person? The director is Dutch.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also met with @prophetcassandra.bsky.social for a mid PCC Mystery Movie (The Red Turtle is a great 30 minute animated short stretched to a surprisingly annoying 80 minutes). Thankfully, she's extremely cool company.
negative · AI labelView post →The Red Turtle. This film will emotionally wring you out like a wet flannel
positive · AI labelView post →went to see The Red Turtle for the first date but we spent the entire pre-movie chat shit talking La La Land lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →Seeing that Zootopia 2 is trending reminds me that the first film beat Kubo and the Two Strings, The Red Turtle, and My Life as a Zucchini for the Oscar that year. Truly, a silly decision even then fueled by the Academy at large treating that category as "well, my (grand)kid liked it."
neutral · AI labelView post →Film & TV Viewing Tally for February 2026. Again, not an easy month health-wise, but I did get to see a few new films, & SFA is a joy! The Red Turtle (2016) The Red Turtle bonus feature LDS - 15 SFA - 4 Bright Star (2008) Bright Star bonus features DS9 - 1 Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not sure this person has actually seen The Red Turtle, a movie where a man tortures a turtle to death.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's minute(ish) of brilliant animation is from The Red Turtle (2016), directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit. Such a lush movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Red Turtle: In this dialogue-free film, a shipwrecked man is stranded on a desert island. His repeated attempts to escape are repeatedly thwarted by a mysterious giant red turtle. The two forge a magical connection, bonding and leading to family, exploring themes of nature and the cycle of life
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight and 1st up on our "watch every Ghibli film" New Years Resolution w/ my gf is 'The Red Turtle' 10/10, this was so jaw-droppingly beautiful & had me taken aback many times by the impressive BG & layout design. A collab between Studio Ghibli & Wild Bunch (France)!! So good! #OrionWatches
positive · AI labelView post →May: Unlike other Ghibli productions, The Red Turtle had its premiere outside Japan, at the Cannes Film Festival ten years ago this week. It's unusual in other ways too, as an international co-production with no dialogue, but the official Ghibli website still lists it alongside their main lineup.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve rarely heard @kermodemovie.bsky.social rave quite as passionately & eloquently about a film as this. I watched The Red Turtle for the first time today, & completely agree with him. It’s a haunting, moving & beautiful film that fills your mind & heart afterwards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJM...
positive · AI labelView post →silent animated movie? sounds like THE RED TURTLE (and I *loved* THE RED TURTLE!) moving this to the top of my watchlist
positive · AI labelView post →The movie of the week is... The Red Turtle
neutral · AI labelView post →Day five of anime recommendations: something unique today. The Red Turtle. A movie with no dialogue about a man stranded on an island who meets a red turtle that doesn't seem to want him to leave. When he accidentally kills the turtle, it turns into a woman, and they fall in love. Very sweet film!
positive · AI labelView post →I just saw "The Red Turtle", the first non Japanese movie produced by studio Ghibli. It shares the core elements of a traditional Miyazaki movie, extremely beautiful (different style though, it looks distinctively french) with a surreal/incomprehensible story. Worth watching 👌
positive · AI labelView post →34) The Red Turtle An animated film w/no dialogue definitely makes it ART & experimental even by ghibli's standards (was joint thing w/a french animation studio). Was it good art?... that I'm less sure about... Visually its great, but that's about it, I guess it's lacking in heart to me. 6/10
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday night’s film: The Red Turtle.
neutral · AI labelView post →A very beautiful film that I feel has been a bit forgotten is THE RED TURTLE (2016). Animated by Studio Ghibli but directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit, it is poetic, existential, and quite wonderful I think. I commend it to you.
positive · AI labelView post →Princess Kaguya turned out to be Takahata's last film before he died in April 2018 - though he did also work as a producer on the 2016 Ghibli co-production The Red Turtle (レッドタートル ある島の物語). As a testament to his uncompromising directorial approach, Princess Kaguya is a fitting final work.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that I’ve finally watched all of them, every Studio Ghibli film ranked 25: Earwig and the Witch 24: Tales From Earthsea 23: Ocean Waves 22: Only Yesterday 21: The Red Turtle 20: The Cat Returns 19: My Neighbors the Yamadas 18: Pom Poko 17: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
neutral · AI labelView post →#movies #anime The Red Turtle (2016) — The last Studio Ghibli I had left to watch... But I suppose it's not really a Ghibli? I've tried reading up on this from a variety of websites, and the connection feels kinda tenuous. From what I understand this was animated by various studios in Europe? 🤷♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s your favorite movie from every decade in your life? 80s: Ran 90s: Lost Highway 00s: No Country for Old Men 10s: The Red Turtle 20s: No Bears
positive · AI labelView post →(2) My first three checks I will give to directors who haven’t made something in far too long. Michaël Dudok de Wit made some great shorts and then the sublime The Red Turtle. That his last film was a decade ago is a real shame.
positive · AI labelView post →Here’s a piece I did on FLOW and animated films without dialogue (like THE RED TURTLE and BOY AND THE WORLD) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →still from the film The Red Turtle (2016) - directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit #art #inspire
neutral · AI labelView post →One movie didn't make the cut due to being terrible and without even one good scene worth showing. One movie I love didn't make the cut because of technicalities (The Red Turtle).
neutral · AI labelView post →I went to see Flow at this year's London Film Festival and absolutely loved it. Between Flow, Robot Dreams, the Shaun the Sheep movies and The Red Turtle, it's been a brilliant few years for silent animation coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →Between THE RED TURTLE, ROBOT DREAMS, and now FLOW, dialogue-less animated films with gorgeous visuals and stirring scores are quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Was deeply moved by FLOW. What a freakin year for animated film.
positive · AI labelView post →I ranked every Studio Ghibli film (so far) for ButWhyTho.net — it was fun but also very stressful and The Red Turtle deserves so much love butwhytho.net/2023/11/stud...
neutral · AI labelView post →Next week on 𝐄𝐘𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐊: The Red Turtle (2016) Dir. Michael Dudok de Wit For the (semi-)bonus episode in our Studio Ghibli series, we’re covering their Oscar-nominated French co-production — a movie about a man, an island, and a turtle who won't let him leave
neutral · AI labelView post →The Red Turtle - 6/10 It completely slipped my mind to add this movie here. This may be the first Studio Ghibili movie yet where I have literally nothing to say about it besides "it exists." I fear I don't see the vision with this one.
negative · AI labelView post →I watched The Red Turtle recently, and it boggles me that people consider this a "weird" movie and that they don't understand it. It's pretty basic. It's a poetic subversion of the man vs nature dynamic. It's about learning to love the creatures around you instead of seeing them as obstacles or food
positive · AI labelView post →Kit deciding that since she didn't cry or get emotionally impacted as much as she expected with The Red Turtle? That she's gonna rewatch Robot Dreams for a dialogue free movie guaranteed to make her bawl
neutral · AI labelView post →"We're proud to bring you everyone's favorite Ghibli film... 2016's 'The Red Turtle,' directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit!!"
neutral · AI labelView post →loved THE RED TURTLE, although one family member was put off by it essentially being a silent movie (no dialogue)
positive · AI labelView post →Studio Ghibli E28 of The Complete Catalog is live! Kyle Macciomei (Ghibli cuisine enthusiast!) joins me to talk THE RED TURTLE, an unconventional "Ghibli film" that almost didn't make it as a full episode. But the movie is just so gorgeous, moving, and full of Ghibli themes. We discuss! Links 👇
neutral · AI labelView post →To his credit, the farthest I'd traveled to see a film was not by car. Ive taken a train to see The Red Turtle, The Wind Rises, Paths of Glory and the Lego Movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE RED TURTLE (2016) This Oscar-nom animated film from Michaël Dudok de Wit is a vivid and beautiful story of survival and our relationship to nature Told almost entirely through images and music Looking forward to showing the kids in our family 1 Sight & Sound vote, Director Nora Twomey
neutral · AI labelView post →any of these w/b good (my vote is for the first two) Tabu; Algie the Miner; Earth; Grass; The Bra (modern German film); Fanchon the Cricket; I Don't Want to Be a Man; The Goddess; The Lodger; Blackmail; The Red Turtle; Salome; Faust; Siren of the Tropics
neutral · AI labelView post →The Cat Returns: really fun. Up on Poppy Hill: an interesting setting in time and place. The Red Turtle: lovely, but I don’t count it as a Ghibli film. When Marnie Was There: somewhat slow and somber tone similar to Arietty. The Boy and the Heron is like Miyazaki’s greatest hits.
positive · AI labelView post →The best animated film ever?? Snow White and the Seven Dwarves? My Neighbour Totoro? Chico and Rita? The Red Turtle? A Scanner Darkly? Inside Out? Grave of the Fireflies? Toy Story? Spirited Away? This person can’t have seen ANY of these.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lovely! Have you seen “The Red Turtle”? It’s another animated film that falls into this category, the only Studio Ghibli film not made under a Japanese director. Gorgeous, moving, ambiguous.
neutral · AI labelView post →Michaël Dudok de Wit's film The Red Turtle, which is a beautiful and deeply moving animated fable. A brisk 80 minutes. Also a brisk 80 minutes, and one of my go to comfort films, The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) - a gentle but beguiling British comedy about a small cinema.
positive · AI labelView post →2/ The Red Turtle is a film about old-fashioned notions such as being at one with the natural world. All this is depicted in beautiful animation whose Japanese influences are unmistakable. One can almost see the brushstrokes that have cast the watercolour-like shades across the seductive screen.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Red Turtle is such an awesome work. Watched it with each of my grownups on different occasions, and this time daughter wanted to show it to her friend. It’s a miracle that this movie has been made, beautiful, open to any interpretation, simple yet deep.
positive · AI labelView post →This reminds me of the time my spouse bought a movie for my birthday, “The Red Turtle” The turtle died in the end and I was crushed because they’re my favorite animal.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen The Red Turtle? I think that's a beautiful film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think of The Red Turtle movie - i really enjoyed the first half, but at a certain point you could sense it struggling against its own self-imposed limitation. Its fine to tell a visual story without a words, but if you only do it as a challenge you might end up hurting the story.
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched two #StudioGhibli movies last night. Earwig & the Witch was fine, glad I finally watched it. The second movie we watched was The Red Turtle. This movie was beautiful, tragic, haunting, mesmerizing and I'm still struggling to form words to describe how I feel about it. I'm still thinking about it after a sleep, so that says something. It was difficult to watch at times and I literally sobbed twice during it. There is no dialogue in the film and the music is used sparingly, which made…
positive · AI labelView post →I borrowed The Red Turtle from my public library recently. This film is directed by Michaël Dudok De Wit in collaboration with Studio Ghibli, among others. As the only spoken dialogue amounts to yells, it relies greatly on visual storytelling. Its art is beautiful and demands your attention.
positive · AI labelView post →Highly recommend the extraordinary film "The Red Turtle." Here's link to trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lwr...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Red Turtle… …is not on Netflix or streaming on anything I have and I’ve spent enough money on those DVDs so next up is Only Yesterday. Apparently this is the worst Ghibli movie according to Fart Boy Scat Pants which I sincerely doubt is the case.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gosh I love The Red Turtle Movie
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