It takes 25 years for a loggerhead turtle to make its way from Florida to the other side of the Atlantic and back again, but it took only two years for resourceful Brit filmmaker Nick Stringer to chronicle the voyage in the visually resplendent “Turtle: The Incredible Journey.” Subtly anthropomorphizing its chosen species in traditional nature-doc fashion, this well-lensed primer on one of Mother Nature’s more harrowing trips reps fine educational fare for tots and should get by swimmingly in tube, homevid and possible theatrical channels.
Opening sequence, set on a Florida beach, crosscuts rather over-dramatically between a newly hatched loggerhead and a predatory crab, immediately establishing the prey-or-be-preyed-upon threat that will characterize the turtle’s long journey ahead — through the Gulf Stream to the Azores, an archipelago nearly 1,000 miles off the coast of Portugal, then back home to lay its eggs. Along the way, a stately supporting cast of whales, sharks, jellyfish and luminescent microbes offer abundant distractions for Rory McGuinness’ HD camera. Music is a tad over-insistent, but Miranda Richardson’s narration strikes the right note of awe.
A little loggerhead turtle follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream all the way to the frozen north and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and back to the beach where she was born.
TURTLE: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY is the story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world.
Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey. She faces many hazards, her siblings are lost in the doldrums of the Sargasso Sea, she comes face to face with creatures of the deep and nearly dies at the hands of fishermen. She travels up north but she drifts from her life current, the Gulf Stream, into dangerously cold waters.
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When she finally reaches the Azores on the other side of the Atlantic, she sees the greatest celebration of life on the Earth as sperm whale and baitballs explode from the water. But deep and powerful changes are happening in the oceans the fish are disappearing, sea levels are rising, the turtles birthing beach could be washed away and bring a way of life to an end.
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Then her calling comes, she must return to her beach. When she finally reaches the shores of Florida, 25 years will have passed!
Under a million stars, she crawls out of the sea to lay her own eggs and keeps the Turtle´s Journey alive.A Sola Media (Germany) presentation, in association with MTN Movies, Filmsat59, the Save Our Seas Foundation, supported by Filmstiftung NRW, Austrian Film Institute, ORF — Austrian Broadcasting Corp., in co-production with Tradewind Pictures, Allegro Film, of a Big Wave and Film & Music Entertainment (U.K.) production. (International sales: Sola Media, Stuttgart, Germany.) Produced by Sarah Cunliffe, Mike Downey, Sam Taylor. Executive producers, Chris Clarke, Zorana Piggott, Mike Tims. Co-producers, Thomas Springer, Helmut G. Weber, Katharina Bogensberger, Helmut Grasser, Solveig Langeland, Beatrix Wesle. Directed by Nick Stringer. Written by Melanie Finn.
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