So we had no restrictions in our physical filming, one of the few places in the world where that that was occurring. Your support will help us continue the important work of InReview in publishing free professional journalism that celebrates, interrogates and amplifies arts and culture in South Australia. The puppet they made for this was just amazing.. later. . The more we're aware and connected to our natural world, the more likely we are to want to partake in its protection. At eight, shes already mastered the art of free diving. Audiences open to an ecological ocean drama thats gentler, more grounded and certainly more Strayan than James Camerons squillion-dollar screensaver can find an appealing if slight companion piece in the latest Tim Winton adaptation, brought to the screen by writer-director Robert Connolly. all my time on, around or under the water. udiences open to an ecological ocean drama thats gentler, more grounded and certainly more Strayan than James Camerons. Shooting of the 2021 movie adaptation of Tim Winton's novel Blueback is underway in Bremer Bay. But when the awards started coming in, Winton was more embarrassed than proud. When out fishing for some abalone with his mother Abel encounters a massive blue groper called Blueback and promises from then on to the protect this beautifulfish. But as the story unfolds, a metaphor emerges. So we had to quarantine for two weeks before we started filming. She meets ol mate Blueback as a youngster (played as a child by Ariel Donoghue and as a teenager by Ilsa Fogg) and, as an adult (Mia Wasikowska), becomes a marine biologist caring deeply about the state of the reef. Please try again later. https://www.penguin.com.au/products/9. His books have been adapted to the stage and screen, and he's been named a National Living Treasure. children's literature is the little league, adults the big. When acclaimed Western Australian author Tim Winton first wrote the novella Blueback, it was at a time in his life when the fragility of the worlds oceans hit him hard. Tim Winton is appearing as part of ABC RN's Big Weekend of Books. An optimistic Robert Connolly hopes his audience is as passionate as he is about these core issues. And good he was. But both the filmmaker and author also wanted to keep the film optimistic to provoke thought and inspire change. Few writers have been as welcomed or as sought after. Crusty fisherman Macka (played by Bana) is part of Abbys memories as the film floats back and forth through time. Mia Wasikowska: I did manage to crossover with the girls in Western Australia by maybe only two days when I was at the end of my filming period. Theirs is a simple life. They do this by: So its a piece of magic, its a little bit of old school filmmaking and puppetry and a lot of beautiful craft work thats gone into it. ", The focus of Blueback is unequivocal - a call to environmental and While Abel is away his motherfearlesslyfights off thesemenand makes the bay a national park tofinallyprotect Blueback and the bay from danger. "I never had a desire for a public life, never "We were told by the culture that all the real Australia was elsewhere, it occurred on the east coast," Winton says. he has been to various countries, but now resides back in Western Australia. The story of Abby, a young girl living with her environmentalist mother on Australia's pristine west coast. I was commercially feted, from the first, An Open Swimmer, which was joint He produced the anthology film, The Turning (2013), based on Wintons short story collection. give only this print interview. A powerful story for generations opens our 2023 season of films under the stars. Other visual effects came from Soundfirm (Peter Rabbit, Paper Plane) and Surreal World. It's an unlikely story for any author, and would have been unimaginable for a young Tim, who decided at 10 years old that he was going to be a writer. Yet he still believes there is a place and indeed, a very important one for art and writing. field-worker in literature's pr harvest. I think [author] Tim Winton has a theory that if you show, and make people care about the world, they're more likely to want to take care of it. Blueback / Tim Winton Children's novel published 1995. You know, this is an actual life-size mechanical, human-operated thing. But just to meet them and get a sense of who they were. If you live your life with your gaze vigorously averted, Really, it's the And then they were about to start theirs. Adapted from Tim Wintons best-selling 1997 novella of the same name, co-writer and director Robert Connolly tells the environmentally-conscious and emotionally-driven story of the unlikely lifelong connection forged by young activist Abby and the titular wild blue grouper, which goes on to inform, inspire, and define her entire life. Eric Bana: Yeah, its really honest. Blueback intertwines three decades in the lives of mother and daughter Abby and Dora. childhood. that writing is (a) "essentially a tedious occupation I spend scads of time finally get pen to paper, you exist only in that present tense - you don't Expands the canon of coastal Aussie pictures: Blueback is in cinemas from 1 January. is timeless. Winton's novel was created for the young adult market, and is therefore a lot more positive and simply written than his novels for adults. I want audiences to have immersive experience, noted Bana about what he hopes people walk away with. You expect a fish to sort of run away, but the groper is like a dog fish. "The Perth that my grandparents knew, and that my parents knew, was a foreign place to me, and my children never saw it. full-time writer since 1982, he has remained trenchantly suspicious of the The film is heavily anchored in messaging about conservation, the environment and saving our planet in the best way we know how. 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Connolly oscillates between three versions of Abby: child, teen and adult. The changes that Abby sees in her personal life at the same time things are shifting on not just a local scale but a global one. . 37, the Fremantle-based author has always been an enigmatic figure in Ozlit. mobile and not have to get into a working rut. Robert Connolly had been developing the film pretty much since the novella was published, but were you guys overly familiar with the source material prior to getting involved in the project? Eric Bana: I got to meet the fish in its early gestation period, as a polystyrene cut-out while it was being developed, and saw all the work that was going in by the amazing company that brought Blueback to life. I would recommend Blueback. Winton is philosophic about that: "I guess it is I got a lot of grief from my daughters about the idea that I was making another film where the hero was a young boy after Id made Paper Planes. Thank you to Penguin Books Australia. Tim Winton was born in 1960 in Western Australia where he still lives. Blueback intertwines three decades in the lives of mother and daughter Abby and Dora. "This is one of the world's last great wild places," Winton says. Gills and a set of fins could well arrive with puberty. from the sea and the land for so long, it's time for us to give something Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was from the Waratah National Park, wherever that was, but it wasn't where we were.". Abby is played as a child by Ariel Donoghue. "I reckon it took me ten years to not feel bad about doing well.". Photo: Roadshow, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, InDaily uses cookies. And I just knew something wasn't right.". I just love the film. I loved its environmental messaging about saving the ocean, and that it took us to a world that is extraordinary Bremer Bay this little bay at the bottom of [Western] Australia, Connolly, who directed and wrote the screenplay, tells The New Daily. was younger and how badly I was paid for my labour - I got $1000 advance for Blueback. 162 Pages. disconcerting. cover-awkward-bases tactic. Until the day he meets Blueback, the fish that changes his life. So I just hope its inspiring for people. McPhee, Hilary (editor) Tim Winton: A Celebration, National Library of Australia. Find out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees. As a writer, I normally have to fight for every sentence, but Blueback felt like a gift and continues to feel like a gift, he says, revealing its the one book he still gets most mail about, although it was first published in 1997. But once we were there, we were working on a normal film. The story follows Abel Jackson as he and his mother earn a living by finding and selling abalone. We meet the pair when Abby is an eight-year-old, obsessed with diving, then again when she is a teen - ditto,. And then one day he turned up with this polystyrene fish. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning. Winton says the journey of adaptation to the screen "has been a long one". If you weren't aware of the realities of what you held to, a pragmatist than anything, but I believe these things in the face of pretty Helpful. Winton is clear-eyed when it comes to the urgency of environmental action, declaring that a "clock is ticking" on human existence. It should be required reading in creative writing classes: Winton is tough opposition. In an early scene, after examining a piece of coral, she delivers sad news to fish on her boat: Your home is dying and I dont know how to help. It signposts the film as an environmentalist statement you could describe as a little on the nose, though it (like the Avatar movies) has good reason to be bold with its messaging, given our dramatically escalating climate crisis and a myriad reasons to be concerned about the state of our oceans. It was really wonderful. "One area is the environment, in giving up certain liberties to deliver environment everything is about balancing the books, of looking after Its achieved with elegance; temporal displacements feeling less like flashbacks or flash forwards than different refractions of the same prism. This was entered for The Australian/Vogel Awardin 1981. Copyright (c) Murray Waldren 1997 In Blueback, Abby takes her passion and makes a career out of it, she added. When I look back and see how hard I worked when I Tim Winton recalls a recent moment when he led his elderly mother to the beach, to help her into the water. it was while there that he began his first novel An Open Swimmer. And it means that Blueback puts a very eloquent case for the care of this marine paradise. For 55 days and nights he rewrote Dirt Music, "while my wife looked on, like I was a ticking bomb", he says. This is his last interview, after two months in Australia promoting his 29th book, The Shepherd's Hut, and flying around the country for a sold-out . Blueback is about people learning from nature.' (Source: Trove) Exhibitions Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, absolutely. I hope Blueback inspires people to contribute positively to our world. Its a real challenge of how you create the journey of an audience of a relationship between a young person and a marine creature. Some Blueback fodder that should pique audience interest: Creating Blueback, the hero of the film, was an undertaking. winner of the 1981 The Australian/Vogel Award. Nor is there anything surprising in the fact that his workers are a callous bunch with a taste for illegal spearfishing. of familiarity with yourself. 1. Through the Western Australian Regional Film Fund and support of the State Government of Western Australia, Screenwest is contributing to the new feature film Blueback, based on Tim Winton's best-selling book. Blueback by Tim Winton - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. Tim Winton on Blueback, Ningaloo, and 40 years of writing, Australian Defence Force personnel and aircraft will be involved in the evacuation of residents from remote communities in the NTexperiencing significant flooding, Former government services minister Stuart Robert is being questioned at theRobodebt inquiry, Keep up with the latest ASX and business news. "That book just slipped out," he says. Whats going on?. Tim Winton. it," he allows, "probably more fun than anything I've written for years. That night, he got up, and started the book again, from scratch. "I am more Blueback opens theatrically in wide release on March 3 and Blueback Quiver Distribution will also release the film on demand on April 21. (Blueback, . The film could be described as unflinchingly earnest but in a good way, because its not often these days youll find a movie that doesnt have a cynical bone in its body. Remove Ads Cast Crew Details Genres Cast READ MORE: * The movies I'm most looking forward to in the first-half of 2023 * I Wanna Dance with Somebody: Phenomenal performances lift Kiwi screenwriter's disappointing Whitney Houston biopic * Top Gun: Maverick, Whina and Moonage Daydream among the films I truly loved this year * The Lost King: Sally Hawkins shines in a breezy, enjoyable and very watchable tale. I just wish the action above the water line was as mesmerising. "We belong to it, Abel.". cataclysm to learn the value of sacrifice. Probably towards the end of this year would be a rough guess. This is the most time weve spent on camera together, right now! Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. lead a Pynchon or a Salinger existence and become completely anonymous. He's unabashed. Connolly and Winton have just found a brilliantly pacy and involving way to make the years pass quickly. Blueback is an adaptation of a novel from best-seller Tim Winton (The Turning). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. He and his mother have depended . Looking back, Winton says some books have been much easier to write than others. three children have enjoyed the same, mainly because I was lucky enough to be "I knew I was hard working. I think I think Rob has done a beautiful job of capturing a natural environment and emotional environment where you realize that yeah, we do as humans get more out of nature than nature gets out of us, when it is a wonderful place to be. My Year 7 English teacher introduced us to Lochie Leonard and the rest as they say is history. Tim Winton knew that humans were damaging the sea when he wrote his 1997 novel Blueback, even while he did nothing about it. We see that with the character of Abby and the amazing relationship she has with her mother and how she's bought up, continued Bana. Later still, he mentions magic moments "when it's happening, when you Interview: Tim Winton, 27 Oct 2012; The Guardian - Waiting for the new wave: an interview with Tim Winton, 28 Jun 2008; The Age - The sea side of Tim Winton, 26 Apr 2008 . Blueback (PG, 102 mins) Directed by Robert Connolly ****. Actually, we already know thats not going to happen. This is comic; a heartfelt role. The film drifts around a bit, neither plot-driven nor super stylish, but its a nice, gentle kind of drift. Rob made a beautiful choice to make the fish real and mechanical, as opposed to just CGI. He was particularly surprised by the American interest. Like the groper, which will spend its life in one place if it can, Dora is devoting her life to the welfare of her own home. paid $50,000 for second books ", That's the professional shaking his head in disbelief. Adapted from the acclaimed book, Blueback follows the story . I dont think Dora and her daughter ever have a conversation that doesnt centre on the reef. "And I'm happy with that. Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. up; talk about sacred links and the New Age is just so much baloney if it The acting is mostly great, the underwater cinematography is superb and the selection of songs on the soundtrack suggest that Robert Connolly's record collection would be an agreeable place to spend a couple of hours. One day he meets Blueback, the biggest and most beautiful fish he's . personally how to resolve. 'idealist' is a perjorative term - a lifetime of journeying in a religious I wanted to make the film in an analogue way. Interestingly, in southern Australia, the Western Blue Groper is the largest carnivorous bony fish species found living on reefs. 4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining read with solid message. Eric Bana: Yeah, similar experience. Like to send a message to Tim? For them, its like, whatever, you're there. I love it. Thats incredible. A wise exploration of the difference between the acquisition of information and the quest for knowledge, Tim Winton's gem-like ecological fable will warm the hearts of his fans. but in an innocent way, it's discussing these things - we have been taking The plot is driven by just one desire an overwhelming urge to save the wonders of the marine world from climate change and over-fishing. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. I love the fact that our characters are part of the environment that we're portraying. Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email. "far more than for other fatter books". Mass Market Paperback - 22 December 2008. In one of the most moving scenes of Winton's 1997 novel Blueback, the protagonist Abel cradles his ageing mum in the water that she loves. The family film will be produced by Arenamedia and directed by Robert Connolly as the follow up to his award-winning box office hit . GREG ARCHER is a pop culture junkie. have an age, a heartbeat, you're just in this squeezed-down narrow focus which His second novel, Is that a sentiment you agree with, or are have you got a soft spot for the more direct approach if the occasion calls for it? Blueback 2022 Directed by Robert Connolly Synopsis He's their best kept secret Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl's power to change the world. Blueback, from Quiver Distribution and Roadshow Films, is a co-production of Screen Australia, Screenwest, West Australian Regional Film Fund, Film Victoria, HanWay Films, Pick Up Truck Pictures, Soundfirm, and Arenamedia, hits theaters March 3. There was almost no rewriting, it just came out formed.". We again assembled an incredible cast and showing off another very, very interesting part of part of Australia, in another thriller. Winton was the first member of his family to go to university, where he studied creative writing. Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors. The waters and land of the Bay both sustain and enrich their lives. I t's the end of the road for Tim Winton. The storytelling came via stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Eric Bana (The Dry, The Forgiven), and a young cast including Ilsa Fogg, Pedra Jackson and Ariel Donoghue. Abbys friendship with the underwater extrovert allows her to put a fishy face to the preciousness of the reef and inspires her to take a stand against the destructive forces of commerce much like her activist mother Dora (Radha Mitchell). It was another one of those strange life-imitating-art moments: in Blueback, published in 1997, Abel and his mum successfully protect their patch of coast from developers. I mean, I feel like this book was written 30 years ago, I might be wrong with that, but I think it was written 30 years ago. And I probably would have been sort of nervous to scuba dive if I wasnt pushed to because of this film., She went on to say how surreal it felt to be underwater for 20 to 30 minutes, likening it to going into outer space. Tim Winton's novel Breath (2008) is a modern bildungsroman set in the sleepy beach town of Sawyer, Western Australia in the 1970s. So why should I be anxious about categorisation?". Blueback stars an animatronic fish but its the humans who are floundering. How can we help the environment? moral arms. other way round. a master of language who writes unadorned sentences that build in power and As Winton and his wife held his mother in the ocean, they were both very aware that this was a scene that Winton had imagined, and committed to paper, more than 20 years earlier. You were both obviously very committed to the project because a small film shooting during the restrictions caused by the pandemic cant have been an easy or straightforward for either yourselves as actors or the cast and crew, especially shooting on location where there are so many more variables than there are on a closed set. Ilsa Fogg plays the teenage Abby in Blueback. It's a beautiful piece of old school craft. At minute 25 [underwater], I had to go up because I realized Ive never been out of my element for so long. The underwater scenes perfectly capture the gliding rhythms of the sea world at its most serene. Cloudstreet the Miles Franklin-winning novel about two families sharing a house in Perth between the 40s and 60s was also a "pleasure" to write. Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, Blueback is quite a classic here in Australia. In the book, for example, Abby . Erik Thomson is selfless as the villainous developer and the marvellous Eddie Baroo turns up as school bus driver Merv, investing "tell your mum I said hello" with more pathos and backstory than you'll believe six simple syllables could carry. His mum had been a swim teacher as a younger woman, but was now too frail to swim on her own. From the hard-to-find Metal Skin, through Somersault, The Black Balloon and the quietly incredible 2016 Is This The Real World, the Aussies routinely knock absolute gems out of the park. Set across three distinct time periods that sees Ilsa Fogg and Ariel Donoghue also play Abby at different points, Bana lends support as the roguish abalone diver Macka, who ends up having a huge impact on the inspiring conservationist. Like the excellent, more adult-oriented Breath also based on a Winton novel this wholesome and modestly affecting coming-of-age story is set on the west coast of Australia, in a fictitious community called Longboat Bay. But no really, really excited. can". Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, it was so crazy. Blueback is a Young Adult novel by Tim Winton, published in 1997. Between them, Eric Bana and Mia Wasikowska have starred in billion-dollar franchises, Hollywood blockbusters, Oscar-winning movies, and acclaimed features from some of the biggest and best names in the business, but Blueback sees the duo returning to their roots in a moving independent production shot in their native Australia. But I fear my grandchildren and The writers of Blueback are Robert Connolly and Tim Winton. These three strands of story are woven against a backdrop of the fight to preserve the womens community and the surrounding ocean from the predations of over-fishing and a boo-hiss property developer. 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