The Castaways of Turtle Island, dir. Jacques Rozier, France 1976, French with English subtitles, 146 min.
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Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier
Things quickly go south when travel agents Jean-Arthur (Pierre Richard) and Joël (Maurice Risch) offer a “fend for yourself” getaway on a deserted island, with their agency forcing them to accompany clients through deep jungle and across barely charted waters to reach a destination that could give Robinson Crusoe a run for his money.
Far ahead of its time in its satirical targets and mixing of disparate narrative tones, Turtle Island is a hilarious comic send-up that could only have emerged from Rozier’s puckish imagination.
"Stunning, an art of everyday zaniness which had no equivalent at the time - and still has none"
– Libération
Things quickly go south when travel agents Jean-Arthur (Pierre Richard) and Joël (Maurice Risch) offer a “fend for yourself” getaway on a deserted island, with their agency forcing them to accompany clients through deep jungle and across barely charted waters to reach a destination that could give Robinson Crusoe a run for his money.
Far ahead of its time in its satirical targets and mixing of disparate narrative tones, Turtle Island is a hilarious comic send-up that could only have emerged from Rozier’s puckish imagination.
"Stunning, an art of everyday zaniness which had no equivalent at the time - and still has none"
– Libération
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Sun, 12 Jul 2026
Cinema 1
06:30 pm
Thu, 23 Jul 2026
Cinema 2
08:00 pm
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