The Turning

The Turning

180 mins | Drama | Sept. 25, 2013

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.

The Turning

180 mins | Drama | Sept. 25, 2013

The Turning
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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Screen Australia, Arenamedia, MIFF Premiere Fund
Original title The Turning
Directors Stephen Page, Jub Clerc, Marieka Walsh, Ashlee Page, Ian Meadows, Yaron Lifschitz, Rhys Graham, Shaun Gladwell, Anthony Lucas, Justin Kurzel, Claire McCarthy, Tony Ayres, Warwick Thornton, Jonathan auf der Heide, Robert Connolly, Mia Wasikowska, Simon Stone, David Wenham
Writers Ian Meadows

Cast

Cate Blanchett

as Gail Lang

Hugo Weaving

as Bob Lang

Rose Byrne

as Rae

Miranda Otto

as Sherry

Richard Roxburgh

as Vic Lang

Susie Porter

as Carol Lang

Callan Mulvey

as David Wilson

Dan Wyllie

as Vic Lang

Harrison Gilbertson

as Vic Lang / On Her Knees

Robyn Nevin

as Carol Lang

Matt Nable

as Max

Finn Woodlock

as Ricky Dyson

Colin Friels

as Narrator

Libby Tanner

as Gail Lang

Dougie Baldwin

as Vic Lang

Taylor Ferguson

as Strawberry Alison

Mirrah Foulkes

as Fay Keenan

Oscar Redding

as Peter Dyson

Toby Wallace

as Brakey

Brenna Harding

as Agnes

Finn Ireland

as Boy #1 (segment "Cockleshell")