Somersault (2004)
Directed by Cate Shortland
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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Young Australian actress Abbie Cornish exhibits the same screen presence she showed in her first starring perf in 2004’s “Somersault.”
A young American woman named Christie (Australian actress Abbie Cornish, from "Somersault") turns up claiming to be Henry's illegitimate daughter, and Max has to decide whether to welcome this potential cousin, scare her off, or seduce her.
And to further spice things up, there are complications in the form of a possible challenger to Henry's will, a young American free spirit named Christie (Abbie Cornish, an Australian actress who gave a terrific performance in Kate Shortland's 2004 "Somersault," released here earlier this year).
Cornish ( Somersault ) beams as well, as the girl from Napa Valley, Calif., who knows a few things about winemaking.
(Photo/Video: Music Box Films) ENLARGE Nele Trebs, Saskia Rosendahl, Mika Seidel and André Frid Music Box Films 'Lore' It has been six years since Cate Shortland's "Somersault" opened in the U.S., and eight years since she made it.
Aussie filmmaker Cate Shortland (“Berlin Syndrome”/”Somersault”) directs, with a few pleasing respites, puts on some needed mustard and gives it some light fun, a film I could take or leave even if it’s a not your average Marvel comic book action movie.
Black Widow director Cate Shortland is an Australian filmmaker best known for Somersault , Lore and Berlin Syndrome , all low-key arthouse movies that would reasonably suggest she might have the nous to bring some depth to the proceedings in a big Hollywood studio tentpole film.
The director, Australia’s Cate Shortland (“Somersault”), works in unvarnished closeup and establishes a mood of lurching, desultory anxiety that’s closer to Russian neorealism than the Russo brothers.
Directed by Cate Shortland (who scored an indie hit with “Somersault” in 2004), the film tries to invest Widow’s story with heart and soul as well as jaunty family banter.
Shortland, who showed so much promise with edgy arthouse draws “Somersault” (2004) and “Lore” (2012), connects the dots, but as with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck doing “Captain Marvel” (2019), her intimate indie style is nowhere to be found under an unending stream of bombastic CGI effects.
It also happens to be far and away the best, Australian director Cate Shortland’s ("Somersault," "Lore") unique blend of goofy humor and exemplary action scenes both leading to world defining, impressively femme-charged change.