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. The Riders, which itself disconcerted many, it looks somewhat Abel Jackson has lived by the sea at Longboat Bay ever since he could remember. 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. Adapted from Tim Winton's 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. [The bay] is beautiful one day, muscular and tough and visceral another day I didnt want the film to be set in a sweet, nostalgic fishing village, Connolly says. Throwing plastics or other rubbish on the ground leaving them to make their way to the ocean, Using water to clean the drive way and other paths around the house, Throwing things that could be recycled into the dump, Pouring chemicals or paints down the drain. On the other hand, however, the English teacher may find themselves . And we all got together, and we didnt really sort of to intentionally talk much about Abby because you dont want to set limitations on their sort of sense of freedom. "There are accumulated losses we have suffered in Australia over Radha Mitchell plays Dora, an environmental activist. Whats going on?. And now I see people being so that people in need will be clothed and fed? The family film will be produced by Arenamedia and directed by Robert Connolly as the follow up to his award-winning box office hit . The waters and land of the Bay both sustain and enrich their lives. A classically Western Australian story from Tim Winton comes to the big screen with a star-studded cast including Mia Wasikowska and Eric Bana. You know, this is an actual life-size mechanical, human-operated thing. There are no doubts, insecurities or moral weaknesses to be found here. In the book, for example, Abby is a 10-year-old boy, Abel. Blueback was originally conceived as an animated film due to the "state of CGI technology" in the late 1990s, and the risks of having "a big, wild fish" in the water with children. Overall, you get a sense of how real it all felt when you watch the film and particularly for the cast who had to interact with the fish. Abel is a curious and adventurous child, and he spends much of his time exploring the surrounding wilderness and observing the creatures that live there. Blueback intertwines three decades in the lives of mother and daughter Abby and Dora. 1. Really, it's the McPhee, Hilary (editor) Tim Winton: A Celebration, National Library of Australia. They do this by: 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. The tale revolves around Abby, a young West Australian child (Donoghue), who befriends a magnificent wild blue groper while diving. 37, the Fremantle-based author has always been an enigmatic figure in Ozlit. finally get pen to paper, you exist only in that present tense - you don't A Western Blue Groper christened Blueback is star of the film based on Tim Wintons book.Credit:SMH. A simple but effective way of saying: she is remembering. "The Perth that my grandparents knew, and that my parents knew, was a foreign place to me, and my children never saw it. And I was like, Okay, and then the fish kind of got bigger and bigger! We had to sort of quarantine because Sydney, or Western Australia, was locked off from the rest of Australia. Theirs is a simple life. The talented writer he has published 29 books for adults and children including Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath says he wrote the bestseller Blueback within a week. "There's an uneasy encounter between art and commerce which I don't know There, protagonist Bruce "Pikelet" Pike comes of age; especially important to this process is his complicated friendship with "Loonie," and later an older couple that he meets through his adventures with Loonie. ABC RN's on-air writers' festival is back! We havent seen Eric do this for a while. He's quickly become one of my favourite film-makers working anywhere today. And I just knew something wasn't right.". We get so much joy and connection, and from the ocean and from our environment. waking up, but it's a question of whether it's fast enough to maintain the He. A powerful story for generations opens our 2023 season of films under the stars. Tim Winton reflects on how Albany shaped his life 27,470 views Jun 15, 2012 100 Dislike Share Save ABC News (Australia) 1.62M subscribers Writer Tim Winton visits Albany for the premiere of. Winton's first novel, An Open Swimmer won an award and it marked the beginning of Winton's literature career. Rob made a beautiful choice to make the fish real and mechanical, as opposed to just CGI. TIM WINTON Abel Jackson loves to dive. The Western Coast of Australia. Copyright (c) Murray Waldren 1997 Here are a few thoughts for you to think about: Turning lights off in rooms we aren't using, Drying clothes on the line not in the dryer, "Up and down they went hanging on the each breath taking a couple of abalone from each clump leaving the rest to breed and grow". Eric Bana: Yeah, same. Winton draws his main inspiration from the landscape he knows well. Later, an older Dora who has suffered a stroke is played in a smaller and more limited role by Liz Alexander. Thank you to Penguin Books Australia. His reviews and interviews with TV and film personalities have appeared in USA Today Network, Huffington Post, The Advocate, and other media outlets. is timeless. Blueback is told straight from the heart by everyone on either side of the camera, which is an approach you dont really see often enough anymore, and one you both clearly gravitated towards. Find out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees. They're really unflappable. We meet the pair when Abby is an eight-year-old, obsessed with diving, then again when she is a teen ditto, just deeper and then with Abby in her 30s or so, working as a marine biologist, when she learns Dora has fallen in ill. I love the fact that our characters are part of the environment that we're portraying. Helpful. secular cesspool, environmentalism. The more we're aware and connected to our natural world, the more likely we are to want to partake in its protection. Tim Winton on Blueback "I don't know whether books like Blueback make a difference, but in an innocent way, it's discussing these things - we have been taking from the sea and the land for so long, it's time for us to give something back. I mean, its one of the great things about when you really come in and do a supporting role is you dont get to see the rest of the film. 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. Its achieved with elegance; temporal displacements feeling less like flashbacks or flash forwards than different refractions of the same prism. Winton says the journey of adaptation to the screen has been a long one. Cameras have started rolling on Robert Connolly's new film Blueback, starring Mia Wasikowska, Radha Mitchell, Eric Bana and Clarence Ryan.. 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. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. 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 . Were thrilled with how the films looking, and looking forward to sharing that with Australian audiences and the rest of the world. Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Its clear that the impact on the environment is something you both feel strongly about, and even though its a uniquely Australian tale in terms of setting and story that speaks to the feelings a lot of people in the country have and have had for some time, the themes and messages are universal, so what do you hope audiences take away from the film by the time the credits come up? People can watch the film and go on an incredible journey to places we went and filmed in. And then one day he turned up with this polystyrene fish. 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. 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. It reaches a length of up to 1.7 meters and can weigh 40 kilograms. 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. He has written novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. Blueback is a story about a young boy called Abel who lives in a bay called Longboat. We need beauty in our lives, so we don't go mad.". "Perth was just being bulldozed," Winton says, referring to the many old buildings that were demolished in the 60s and 80s. The boy befriends the fish, a blue grouper while diving for abalone, his family's trade. Blueback. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/tim-winton-blueback-ningaloo-and-40-years-of-writing/101297058, Get breaking news alerts directly to your phone with our app, Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article. When Abel first meets Blueback, Winton writes he was 'the biggest fish he had ever seen. He laughs, denies he's a romantic. 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. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Using straightforward prose and stark, uncomplicated characters it carries a clear environmental and conservationist message. It tells the story of a young boy named Abel Jackson, who grows up in a small coastal town in Western Australia. I have a need for a fairly big margin of privacy to feel that I ", Blueback is subtitled "a fable for all ages", a marketing I wanted to work with the real, natural world. This beautiful story about a child, their activist mum, a wild blue groper, and the fight to save a reef from commercial fishing operators and developers has now been adapted by filmmaker Robert Connolly (director of Balibo, Three Dollars and The Dry, and producer of Romulus, My Father and The Boys) into a coming-of-age family film for the big screen. freedom I had as a kid, a sense of wide-open spaces, the kind of Australian I hope Blueback inspires people to contribute positively to our world. "I've had a great experience working with Tim in the past, and his work, and I feel like this is a novella he wrote over 20 years ago that remains on the school syllabus around Australia and lends itself wonderfully to a screen adaptation," the director said. full-time writer since 1982, he has remained trenchantly suspicious of the can". The film is heavily anchored in messaging about conservation, the environment and saving our planet in the best way we know how. 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. Eric Bana makes a regrettably brief appearance as a genial abalone diver who retains Doras friendship despite his delinquency in harvesting a few more molluscs than he should. The underwater scenes perfectly capture the gliding rhythms of the sea world at its most serene. https://www.penguin.com.au/products/9. Photo: David Dare Parker, [Tim] is just a deeply humanist storyteller its very moving its fun and optimistic, but its also got deep elements about a life lived.. cloying. The most successful was Breath (2017), a coming-of-age story which united Wintons passion for the sea with a poignant examination of the emotional damage casually inflicted on two teenagers by a pair of charismatic but unthinking adults. "Every day was special, his mother always told him this, but it all became much more precious the day he first shook hands with old Blueback" (page 10). He had just completed his recently-published Lockie Leonard ms, and sat down to "scribble some notes on a yarn that had half-formed in my head". he'd better have another look at it. Mia Wasikowska: So I felt like there was a whole movie that I hadnt been a part of. Contents Life and career Personal life Style and themes Environmental advocacy I want audiences to have immersive experience, noted Bana about what he hopes people walk away with. Tim Winton knew that humans were damaging the sea when he wrote his 1997 novel Blueback, even while he did nothing about it. 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. Abel Jackson's forebears were whalers, his father a pearl- diver whose life was ended by a shark. 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. The blue groper at the heart of Blueback was created by Melbournes Creature Technology Company.Credit:Roadshow. Incredible actors at the beginning of epic careers who learnt how to do their own free diving, learnt how to swim in the ocean, Connolly says of the newcomers. If there's something ahead that Tim Winton (based on the book 'Blueback' by) Stars Mia Wasikowska Albert Mwangi Ariel Donoghue See production, box office & company info Coming soon Releases March 3, 2023 Add to Watchlist Added by 2.1K users 6 User reviews 24 Critic reviews 57 Metascore Videos 4 Trailer 1:03 Watch Teaser Trailer Trailer 2:00 Watch Official Trailer Featurette 3:36 "I feel very specifically that I benefited from growing up where I did, the kind of money most people toss aside for their drinks bill. And I love the dynamic between between Macka and Abby. "This is one of the world's last great wild places," Winton says. expected to be read by more than a couple of thousand people, and when you get She dubs her googly-eyed, big-lipped new friend "Blueback," promising her mom to. So what did Bana whose international career goes back to 1997s The Castle bring to the project, when cast and crew found themselves filming off Ningaloo Reefs warm waters with whale sharks and oceanic manta rays? https://libguides.spx.nsw.edu.au/EnglishYear5. Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Bana and Wasikowska hadnt seen a Blue Groper prior to filming, in fact. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. "It's a period of Blueback releases in select theaters, as well as on digital and on-demand, this coming Friday March 3. Listen back to his conversation with The Book Show's Claire Nichols. 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. This is comic; a heartfelt role. faith against the current in the least religious country in the world has been other way round. Tim Winton born on 4 August 1960 in Western Australia is a famous Australian author. You can email him here Tim WintonMessages to Tim emotions. . If we change our ways, small or big, we can all collectively impact the environment. Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, Blueback is quite a classic here in Australia. Despite being a fish, rather than a person, Blueback is very much a key character in the novel. Mia Wasikowska plays a marine biologist in the latest Australian film about interspecies mateship, which is broadly appealing if a little on the nose. South-East Asian section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. something. 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. Born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1960, he is the author of several novels for adults, including Shallows (1986), a novel set in a whaling town, and Cloudstreet (1991), the tale of two working-class families rebuilding their lives, both won prestigious Miles Franklin Awards in Australia. But then I've always hated the idea I wanted the actors to do their own swimming rather than stunt people. Later still, he mentions magic moments "when it's happening, when you In one scene, adult Abby, during a moment of melancholic reflection, casts her gaze towards sand dunes, before Connolly cuts to teenage Abby walking across them. And I think that they just did a brilliant job. 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. 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. And it was so emotional. Eric Bana: Yeah, we shot the follow up which is called Force of Nature last year, and were just finished in the post-production phase, literally within the last couple of weeks. Related: Best Mia Wasikowska Movies, Ranked. And after others told him they were moved to tears by the tale, he thought Robert. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Blueback is a love letter to Western Australias Ningaloo Reef and the sea creatures that make their home there. Tim Winton's narrative 'Blueback' is set in Longboat Bay, Robber's Head. Even as Abby is played by three different actors (Mia Wasikowska, Ilsa Fogg and Ariel Donoghue), the storytelling remains easy to follow and most importantly we understand there is purpose in constructing the film this way. 100% (1) 100% found this document useful (1 vote) 2K views. As an adaptation comes to the silver screen, he reflects on how the book's protagonist has haunted him all the way to Ningaloo Reef. Eric Bana: Yeah, I have to recommend Blueback today. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. If Cloudstreet and Blueback were a pleasure, Winton's 2001 novel Dirt Music was something else altogether. Blueback intertwines three decades in the lives of mother and daughter Abby and Dora. Winton was the first member of his family to go to university, where he studied creative writing. Blueback Tim Winton 3.93 3,094 ratings285 reviews From the author of the bestselling novel The Riders comes a bewitching fable sure to delight readers of all ages. Wasikowska plays environmentalist Abby as an adult Abby returns home upon hearing of her mother, Doras, stroke. Photo: David Dare Parker. My I mean, its a bigger topic that hopefully inspires people, especially the younger generations to sort of be a bit more conscious and use their energies in a positive way for the for the whole environment. For 55 days and nights he rewrote Dirt Music, "while my wife looked on, like I was a ticking bomb", he says. field-worker in literature's pr harvest. im Winton was born on the 4th August 1960 in Western Australia is a famous Australian Author. A It made me very envious, actually, watching the film like, what an amazing place to have a childhood.. commercially feted, from the first, An Open Swimmer, which was joint 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. each of my first three books, and that was for years and years of my life, for Written by Tim Winton. winner of the 1981 The Australian/Vogel Award. Over time, he has mellowed a little - he's just returned from a three-month The journey allows her to recall her younger self (played by Donoghue) and the experiences she had befriending a blue groper. Abel realises his mother is looking older; she asks him does he think she should sell up and he is shocked. Connolly spent over 20 years developing the project, which he also co-wrote. skin." The latest film from The Dry director Robert Connolly, starring Mia Wasikowska . 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. But once we were there, we were working on a normal film. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Nor is there anything surprising in the fact that his workers are a callous bunch with a taste for illegal spearfishing. His mum had been a swim teacher as a younger woman, but was now too frail to swim on her own. paperback. It takes that emotional element to propel people into changing behaviors.. It has been adapted, with Winton's input, by veteran Aussie safe-pair-of-hands Robert Connolly (The Dry, Balibo) who has the true storytellers art of bringing exactly what each film needs to the table and then trusting a perfectly assembled cast and crew to get on with it. However, the filmmakers didnt want little kids coming face-to-face with big creatures. "It was odd because I think all of us were conscious of the connection; as if we were inhabiting some fictional reality.". (A screen adaptation starring Mia Wasikowska and Eric Bana is slated to hit cinemas in January). "And if we lose these places, we've lost everything.". YouTube. Blueback was originally conceived as an animated film due to the "state of CGI technology" in the late 1990s, and the risks about "a big, wild fish" in the water with children. Shallows, won the Miles Franklin Award, as did Cloudstreet Winton's passion for Ningaloo has only grown in the years since the campaign. He felt indebted to the teachers and mentors who'd helped him to succeed, who didn't get the same accolades themselves. A new fisher also comes to the bay and he has no respect for the fish or being sustainable, allthis fisher cares about is getting the most fish. Thank you Tim Winton. My Year 7 English teacher introduced us to Lochie Leonard and the rest as they say is history. 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? Adapted from the acclaimed book, Blueback follows the story . The film crew on location at Bremer Bay in Western Australia. Thats really important. Tim Winton is appearing as part of ABC RN's Big Weekend of Books. Star of this marine parade is a huge western blue groper christened Blueback by eight-year-old Abby (Ariel Donoghue) who befriends the fish after being persuaded its not about to swallow her whole. 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. Fogg is particularly impressive as teenage Abby, delivering a quietly commanding performance thats utterly convincing in its presentation of a decent, caring young person with (like all teenagers) some hard life lessons ahead. Verified Purchase. We did as best we could to made sure that didnt happen. Blueback is about people learning from nature.' (Source: Trove) Exhibitions Blueback. Blueback, a heartbreaking allegory about a boy, his mother and a blue groper, was written "inside a business week," Winton says. Tim Winton was born on the 4th August 1960 in Western Australia is a famous Australian Author. Theirs is a simple life. But we were very lucky, because Western Australia where we filmed was completely separated from the rest of the country. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). "I had enormous pleasure writing And otherwise, the goal feels like its its not as achievable. Ahead of the release, We Got This Covered had the chance to talk to Bana and Wasikowska about the project, the difficulties of shooting on location during the pandemic, their own thoughts on the perils of climate change and much more, which you can check out below. His religious - and social - faith sustains him, he admits, "although at He forms a connection with a fish - Blueback - while diving. An achingly beautiful story about family, belonging and living a life in tune with the environment, from one of Australia's best-loved authors, Tim Winton. And theres a simplicity in that, that I think just, you know, works well. 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