Stone Turtle

2022

1h 31m

Drama

Sci-Fi

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Zahara, a stateless refugee, lives on a small remote island in Malaysia, where she makes a living selling turtle eggs. One day, Samad, claiming to be a university researcher, visits the island, wanting to employ Zahara to show him around. As the day goes on, Zahara and Samad become entangled in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.

Peter Debruge

Variety

By nature, folk stories have been told countless times before, and though Zahara seeks to break the cycle of the one in which she’s trapped, the “Groundhog Day” format fits Woo’s project well...

Oct 15, 2022

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Nadine Whitney

AWFJ.org

Ming Jin Woo’s puzzle is engaging but the structure is not always to the film’s advantage. It relies too heavily on late reveals and foreshadowing to make the at times extreme viciousness as purposeful as it could be.

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 6, 2023

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Kevin Wight

The Wee Review

<i>Stone Turtle</i> is a messy but vibrant and beguiling adult fable that crams literal multitudes into a compact 90 minutes.

Rated: 4

Mar 7, 2023

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Power slips from one character to another with disconcerting ease, and as the story progresses, what might seem confounding, a product of myth or dream or hallucination, takes on an abject clarity.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 7, 2023

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

Ming Jin Woo's mythomanic mystery places characters on an island of lost souls in search of elusive revenge and closure

Mar 1, 2023

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Synopsis

Zahara, a stateless refugee, lives on a small remote island in Malaysia, where she makes a living selling turtle eggs. One day, Samad, claiming to be a university researcher, visits the island, wanting to employ Zahara to show him around. As the day goes on, Zahara and Samad become entangled in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.

Director: Woo Ming Jin
Producer: Edmund Yeo, Woo Ming Jin
Screenwriter: Woo Ming Jin, Neesa Jamal, Deo Mahameru
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language: Malay
Runtime: 1h 31m