A pointed simplicity governs Michael Dudok de Wit’s The Red Turtle, one that’s typical of many survival tales.
Pascale Ferran’s film isn’t daring enough to fully embrace the narrative fragmentation that it sporadically assumes.
Dice it any way you want, this material was, is, and will always be pretty cheap.
Lady Chatterley, as it’s titled, is little more than a summa cum laude graduate of the Merchant-Ivory school of Classics Illustrated.