Australian writer-director Cate Shortland's debut feature unfolds in the same thorny thicket of adolescent sexuality explored by French filmmaker Catherine Breillat in such discomfiting films as A REAL YOUNG GIRL (1975) and FAT GIRL (2001). Restless 16-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) lives in Canberra with her single mother, Nicole (Olivia Pigeot), until Nicole walks in on her live-in boyfriend and her daughter in a carnal embrace. Heidi flees north to icy Jindabyne, a resort town in the Snowy Mountains, for no better reason than that she once slept with a guy who told her to call if she were ever in the neighborhood. She calls, a woman answers, and Heidi realizes she...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins