Metrograph

The first external co-production by Studio Ghibli, Academy Award-winning minimalist animator Dudok de Wit’s dialogue-free first feature applies ravishing visuals to the deceptively simple story of a man stranded alone on a desert island whose attempts to escape via a handmade raft are foiled time and again by a massive sea turtle. “A desert island film about succumbing rather than just surviving… A precise and elegant fable, which uses magical realism to wind its elements together… Astonishingly moving.”—Sight and Sound