The Red Turtle (2016) on Netflix
PG20161h 20mAnimationFamilyFantasy
A man wakes on the shore of an uninhabited island with fresh water, fruit and bamboo. He builds a raft to leave, but something in the water breaks it apart.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.5/1042,689 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes93%
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Plot summary
Cast into the sea by a storm, a man comes to on the sand of an island where nobody lives. He explores it and finds he can eat and drink: fruit, water, a thick stand of bamboo, and a smooth hill of rock above the beach. Nights pass and he sees a bridge leading out over the water and a group of musicians playing on the sand, though neither is there. He wants to get away, so he lashes bamboo together into a raft. Something he cannot see wrecks it and drives him back. He makes a second raft, larger than the first, and the same thing happens. On his third try the raft comes apart again, and this time the creature reveals itself, a red sea turtle of great size.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Red Turtle (2016)
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- Michaël Dudok de Wit first planned to animate on paper and scan the drawings into a computer for digital colouring, but switched to a graphics tablet after tests on a Cintiq. The backgrounds were drawn with charcoal on paper, then scanned, and colours added in Photoshop.
