Somersault

Director: Cate Shortland

2004 / 106min / 4K DCP

Shortland’s visually arresting debut feature, a standout at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival recently treated to a 4K restoration, follows 16-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) as, in flight from a catastrophic fall-out with her mother, she begins to learn about the difference between sex and love in the frigid landscape of the ski resort town of Jindabyne in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, there becoming enamored of a tight-lipped townie played, with beguiling reticence, by a pre-Avatar Sam Worthington. A film of disarming intimacy, bracing tactility, and unusual emotional perceptivity, whose clean sweep of the AFI awards in the year of its release has never been repeated.

Somersault has been restored by Piccolo Films from the original 35mm master negative and final mix master audio components. Restoration by Ray Argall in consultation with Anthony Anderson, Robert Humphreys, Sam Patty and Cate Shortland.

A Film Movement Release