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form y separately published work icon Somersault single work   film/TV  
Alternative title: More Than Scarlet
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Somersault
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'A visually haunting story of an adolescent girl's discovery of the difference between sex and love in the winter landscape of an Australian ski resort town.'

Source: Screen Australia.

Notes

  • Working title: More Than Scarlet
  • Somersault won all thirteen feature film categories in the 2004 AFI Awards. This was the first occasion on which a film had made a clean sweep of all categories.

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Works about this Work

Primary Producer Benjamin Law , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 March 2016;
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium Erin Free , Dov Kornits , Travis Johnson , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016;
(Sweet) Sixteen Great Australian Teen Films Erin Free (editor), 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 20 May 2016;
The Emerald City of Oz : The City of Sydney as a Gay Space in Australian Feature Films Scott McKinnon , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , March vol. 5 no. 3 2012; (p. 307-319) 'Australian feature films featuring gay male characters have consistently defined the inner-city - and particularly the inner-city of Sydney - as a gay space. This article examines a range of such films within the historical context of the emergence of gay male community and culture in Sydney. While this history reveals the complex and contested nature of gay men's connections to the city, on-screen depictions have tended to mask such complexity in favour of a simplistic urban/gay versus rural/straight divide. By repeatedly exploring gay life in inner-city spaces through the eyes of heterosexual, rural visitors, Australian films have developed and replicated discourses that have seen Sydney defined as the 'true' home of gay male community and culture.' (Editor's abstract)
The Premiere State goes Local Michael Bodey , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 May 2012; (p. 16)
Flipping Out Allan James Thomas , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , November vol. 14 no. 9 2004; (p. 44)
— Review of Somersault Cate Shortland , 2004 single work film/TV
Journey Girls Belinda Hazelton , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Lesbians on the Loose , September 2004; (p. 16)
— Review of Somersault Cate Shortland , 2004 single work film/TV
Angel with Dirty Wings Patrick Garson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Artlook , October no. 5 2004; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Somersault Cate Shortland , 2004 single work film/TV
Somersault (Cate Shortland, 2004) Brodie Lancaster , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , no. 55 2010;
— Review of Somersault Cate Shortland , 2004 single work film/TV
Untitled Sarah Lancaster , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies , November vol. 2 no. 2 2004; (p. 99-101)
— Review of Somersault Cate Shortland , 2004 single work film/TV
Head Over Heels for Somersault 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 October 2004; (p. 1-2)
Somersault with 13 Pikes Garry Maddox , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 October 2004; (p. 1, 2)
Head Over Heels at Movie's Clean Sweep Lawrie Zion , Sophie Tedmanson , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 October 2004; (p. 3)
Snow Worries Stephanie Bunbury , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 August 2004; (p. 18-19)
Killing the Gatekeeper : Autonomy, Globality and Reclaiming Australian Cinema Matthew Clayfield , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , October-December no. 33 2004; 'Recent Australian films still struggle to define a viable “national identity” – but is this even necessary?' (Publisher's abstract)
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Cate Shortland
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Jindabyne, Jindabyne - Eucumbene area, Cooma - Snowy - Bombala area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • 2000s
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