Since France is the birthplace of cinema, it’s no surprise that the French were also animation pioneers. Years before the Lumière brothers thrilled and terrified audiences with their moving images of trains and horses, Émile Reynaud was conjuring ima …Read more

Director Michaël Dudok de Wit’s The Red Turtle is an exquisite film that explores fate through the tale of a nameless man who wakes up on a deserted island accompanied only by the title reptile. Using breathtaking animation, we follow the man as he b …Read more

If The Little Prince married Princess Mononoke, their movie life would be something like The Red Turtle. Not with words or content, but how it might feel. Like French-pressed coffee and Japanese tea alone on a beach, without a morsel of food, not eve …Read more