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The Red Turtle
La Tortue rouge
2016 · Film · 81 min
Directed by 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.
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> I suspect as I said elsewhere that "feature length movie with no dialogue that's actually good" was enough to get people watching it, even seeking it out. We're more than a hundred years out from silent movies, so it's a curiosity by that metric alone
There have been 4 other Best Animated nominees with no dialogue.
• "Shaun the Sheep Movie" (2015) with 99% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average critic rating of 8.1/10
• "The Red Turtle" (2016) with 93% on RT and an average critic rating 8.10/10
• "A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon" (2019) with 96% on RT with an average critic rating of 7.5/10
• "Robot Dreams" (2023) with 98% on RT and an average critic rating of 8.4/10
I was watching this Studio Ghibli movie, The Red Turtle, which is a very calm animated movie with basically no words.
And the guy swims through an underwater cave and gets stuck for a moment.
just a silly animated scene.
...but in that moment I went from relaxed to heart in my throat.