Movie

The Turning

2013 · 180 min

A slow, haunting mosaic of ordinary lives at emotional crossroads, asking patience as it quietly accumulates into a portrait of a coastal community.

Tagline: A unique cinema event.
Overview: Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, dark and warm. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, family, identity, grief
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
family
identity
grief
redemption
Places: small town
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild