Breath | |
---|---|
Directed by | Simon Baker |
Screenplay by | Gerard Lee Simon Baker Tim Winton |
Based on | Breath by Tim Winton |
Produced by | Mark Johnson Simon Baker Jamie Hilton |
Starring | Simon Baker Elizabeth Debicki Samson Coulter Ben Spence Richard Roxburgh |
Cinematography | Marden Dean Rick Rifici |
Edited by | Dany Cooper |
Music by | Harry Gregson-Williams |
Production companies | Gran Via Windalong See Pictures |
Distributed by |
|
Release dates |
|
Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Box office | $3.2 million [1] |
Breath is a 2017 Australian sports drama film based on the novel of the same name by Tim Winton, and directed by Simon Baker, from a screenplay that Baker and Winton co-wrote with Gerard Lee. Baker also stars in the film alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Samson Coulter, Ben Spence and Richard Roxburgh.
It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2017 Zurich Film Festival. It was released on 3 May 2018 in Australia by Roadshow Films, and on 1 June 2018 in the United States by FilmRise.
This article needs an improved plot summary.(January 2020) |
In the 1970s, two teenage surfer boys, Pikelet and Loonie, growing up in a small town meet and form a connection with an older surfer named Sando, who challenges them to take greater and more dangerous risks. [2] [3]
The film is the feature directorial debut of Simon Baker, who also acted in the film and produced it [4] with Mark Johnson and Australian Jamie Hilton. Johnson met Tim Winton in America where he was on a book tour and obtained an option on the book. Winton wrote the first screenplay with the final script by Gerard Lee, Baker and Winton. [2] [5] Financing was provided by "the Australian art councils and... from Screen Australia to ScreenWest", [2] Great Southern Development Commission and Autumn Productions. The Western Australian Government contributed $2.3 million in a bid to promote the state as a premier filming location. [6]
Producer Mark Johnson said, "It's got universal themes—about being desperately afraid that you're ordinary, about being afraid as a young man that there's nothing exceptional about you—and I think that has great application in a universal way, but this is also a specifically Western Australian story". [2] Simon Baker's view is that "Tim's book viscerally captures the restless curiosity and yearning for identity that often defines our coming of age". [5]
The Western Australian coastal town of Denmark, part of the Great Southern region, is the location for filming. [6] For Tim Winton this was an ideal location; "The Great Southern region has had an enormous impact on my life and work so I'm very pleased this film is being shot on the beaches and streets and forests that inspired the book." [5]
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2020) |
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80%, based on 50 reviews, and an average rating of 6.63/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A coming of age drama with a surfing twist, Breath navigates seemingly familiar waters — but has surprising depth below the surface." [7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [8]
Award | Category | Subject | Result |
---|---|---|---|
AACTA Awards (8th) | Best Film | Jamie Hilton | Nominated |
Mark Johnson | Nominated | ||
Simon Baker | Nominated | ||
Best Direction | Nominated | ||
Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | ||
Gerard Lee | Nominated | ||
Tim Winton | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actor | Simon Baker | Won | |
Best Supporting Actress | Elizabeth Debicki | Nominated | |
Best Cinematography | Marden Dean | Nominated | |
Rick Rifici | Nominated | ||
Best Editing | Dany Cooper | Nominated | |
Best Sound | Jed Dodge | Won | |
Trevor Hope | Won | ||
Mackenzie | Won | ||
Tara Webb | Won | ||
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist (f.p.) investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne.
Simon Lucas Baker is an Australian actor and director. He is best known for his role as Patrick Jane in the CBS drama series The Mentalist (2008–2015), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series nomination.
Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Australia, over a period of twenty years, 1943 to 1963. The novel received several awards, including a Miles Franklin Award in 1992, and has been adapted into various forms, including a stage play and a television miniseries.
Timothy John Winton is an Australian writer. He has written novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times.
Dirt Music is a 2001 novel by Tim Winton. A 2002 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel and winner of the 2002 Miles Franklin Award, it has been translated into Russian, French, German, Dutch, and Swedish. The harsh, unyielding climate of Western Australia dominates the actions and events of this thriller.
The Riders (1994) is a novel by Australian author Tim Winton published in 1994. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995.
Tim Baker is an Australian journalist specialising in surf culture. He has twice received the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Culture Award, and is a former editor of Tracks and Australia's Surfing Life magazines. His work has appeared in a range of publications, including Rolling Stone, GQ, Inside Sport, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Way, Playboy, the Australian Financial Review, The Bulletin, as well as numerous surfing magazines. He is the best-selling author of four books on surfing, including Bustin’ Down The Door, High Surf, Occy, Surf For Your Life with Mick Fanning and The Rip Curl Story. He is currently a senior contributor to Surfing World, Surfing Life, Surfer’s Path (UK), and the Surfers Journal.
A breath is the act of inhaling and exhaling.
Blueback is a short novel by the Australian author Tim Winton. First published in 1997, it has since been translated into Italian, Dutch and Japanese.
That Eye, the Sky is a 1986 novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It follows the young protagonist Morton 'Ort' Flack, as he struggles to cope with life in a small country town after his father is paralysed in a serious car accident. After his father's accident, Ort is forced to step up and become the 'Man' of an increasingly complicated household. The situation becomes all the more convoluted with the introduction of the mysterious Henry Warburton, a dubious figure who says he has come to help. The story explores the theme of coming of age, and the complicated role religion plays in rural Australian life.
In The Winter Dark is a 1988 novel by Australian author Tim Winton.
Twisted Tales is an Australian television anthology and mystery drama which screened on the Nine Network from December 1996 to January 1998. Each episode was narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the follow-up series, Two Twisted, in 2006. Each episode of the series contains a twist ending.
Breath is the twentieth book and eighth novel by Australian author Tim Winton. His first novel in seven years, it was published in 2008, in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Cloudstreet is an Australian television drama miniseries for the Showcase subscription television channel, which first screened from 22 May 2011, in three parts. It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an award-winning novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was filmed in 2010 in Perth, Western Australia, with Matthew Saville as the director, and script written by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana.
Gerard Lee is an Australian novelist, screenwriter, and director.
Elizabeth Debicki is an Australian actress. Born in Paris and raised in Melbourne, she studied acting at the University of Melbourne, and made her film debut in the comedy A Few Best Men (2011). She gained wider recognition with her performances in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013)—which won her the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress—and as Ayesha in the Marvel films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). Debicki's profile grew with roles in the limited series The Kettering Incident and The Night Manager and in Steve McQueen's heist thriller Widows (2018), and in 2019, she received the Cannes Trophée Chopard.
The Life is a 2011 novel by the Australian author Malcolm Knox. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of a fictional world surfing champion Dennis Keith. The character of Dennis Keith was inspired by the life of the Australian surfer Michael Peterson.
The Turning is a 2013 Australian anthology drama film based on a 2004 collection of short stories by Tim Winton. It premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 3 August 2013. It was nominated for the 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film, and was screened in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
Eyrie (2013) is a novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award.