The Mind Behind the Red Turtle, Ghibli’s Mute Jewel: “It Was Never a Blockbuster, It Wasn’t Meant to Be”

La Tercera

Lean Right

Factuality

Ownership

Father and daughter (2000) begins with a father and daughter touring the landscapes of the Netherlands. Suddenly the walk comes to an end. They separate on the edge of a hill and he takes a boat that leads him to an unknown destination. From that moment the film –character of all dialogue – narrates the different stages of the girl, who ceases to be a girl and becomes a woman, forms a family and reaches old age, always longing to meet her father…