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The Red Turtle
Why this pick
Its wordless, hand-drawn fable form and elemental imagery create a similarly austere, enchanted experience, where hardship and solitude gradually open into grace.
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MOVIE2016 1h 16m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The Devil appears to a miller and offers to make him rich if he sells him "what is behind your mill". The miller returns home to find liquid gold flowing through his mill, but discovers that his daughter had been behind the mill, playing in an apple tree. After years of luxury, the Devil reappears to collect the young girl, but finds her too clean to take. He orders the family to confine the young girl to the apple tree, guarded by dogs which then maul her mother to death when she tries to help her. When the Devil returns, he finds that the young girl had kept her hands clean. He angrily orders the miller to cut off her hands, and the young girl consents. Even then, the young girl makes her arm stumps clean with just her teardrops, and the Devil still cannot collect her. The young girl angrily chooses to leave the mill.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Anaïs Demoustier
The Girl (voice)
Olivier Broche
The Father
Jérémie Elkaïm
The Prince (voice)