Watch: Somersault 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Coming of age: Heidi, 15, runs away from home after her mom sees her kissing mom’s boyfriend. She goes to a Snowy River resort where a vague job offer doesn’t pan out. She manages to find a place to live and a job at a convenience store. She’s between childhood — nursery rimes and a scrapbook of glittery unicorns – and adulthood – working, sorting out emotions and sexuality, and dealing with social slights and false charges of bad behavior. She’s attractive and her loneliness makes her vulnerable. She sleeps with Joe, the son of local ranchers, and she awakens in him feelings he can’t express. Is there any way she can put off adulthood and be a kid awhile longer?.
Plot: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she’s caught red-handed with her mother’s boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
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Struggling to find affection in a surprisingly moving and beautiful film.
A beautifully filmed story, the two film comparisons that come to mind are The Virgin Suicides and Morvern Callar. All of these films feature young girls, coping with circumstances that throw them into a spiral – an internal spiral – filmed with grace, attention to detail and a good ear for the soundtrack. There are difficult moments here, where I found myself saying ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it’, but she does because inexperience and lack of confidence make for poor choices. As soon as you can place yourself in her shoes, you will find this film moving, and very clearly (and poetically) observed. I recommend this film very highly, both for its clean and original voice – and very Australian voice – and the sympathy we feel for its very real lead characters.
Never quite lands on its feet
Like last year’s Bright Star, Somersault sees the luminous Abbie Cornish steal every scene in a neatly framed, well-meaning, but vapid love story. This Heidi is no Fanny though; she’s shy and desperate to feel wanted, and emotional security above romance is the order of the day. She obviously sees something similarly fragile in Sam Worthington’s Joe. It’s just a pity that Worthington the actor hasn’t the subtlety to convince us of this hidden sensitivity; his shifts in mood come across as minor Hulk moments. He even has a Lou Ferrigno mullet.The plotting itself is fine, but the dialogue is often flat and feels very ‘written’: lots of unlikely, monosyllabic, stabbing exchanges, which tend to undermine the chilly rawness of the film’s photography and themes.
There’s a bleak spine of truth running through Cate Shortland’s debut feature, and many well-observed scenes. But ultimately it comes off as a kind of STI-free rendition of Lilya-4-Ever.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min), 1 hr 39 min (99 min) (TV) (Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 1482316
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Cate Shortland
Writer Cate Shortland
Actors Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran
Country Australia
Awards 41 wins & 15 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Moviecam Cameras
Laboratory Atlab Film Laboratory Service, Sydney, Australia
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm