“Tim Winton’s The Turning” Trailer — Aussie Anthology Film starring Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne and more!

source:   youtube.com

added: Wed, Aug 28th '13

Practically the whole Australian filmmaking industry (well, minus Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Eric Bana, and Nicole Kidman, of course) appear in the new Aussie anthology film that's based on acclaimed author Tim Winton's sprawling book "The Turning," which tells 17 interwoven stories set in a sleepy Australian coastal town.

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne, Richard Roxburgh and Miranda Otto are among the talented Aussie cast, while Stoker's Mia Wasikowska and 300's David Wenham are going behind the camera for the first time in their careers, making their directorial debuts on two separate segments. The film, which also features actor Callan Mulvey (from the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and up-and-comer Brenna Harding, is set to open theatrically in Australia beginning on September 26th. No word if or when the movie will open the States.

synopsis:
The Turning is a unique cinema event. 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. This watershed film reinterprets and re-imagines the work for the screen.

directed by   Justin Kurzel, Robert Connolly, Warwick Thornton, Anthony Lucas, David Wenham, Mia Wasikowska, much more

starring   Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto

release date   September 26, 2013 (Australia)