Review: The Turning

Simon Smart gives his thoughts on the film version of Tim Winton's The Turning

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Simon Smart gives his thoughts on the film version of Tim Winton's The Turning

The Turning is a unique cinema event. Seventeen Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create one of the stories from Tim Winton's collection. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community.

Simon Smart watched the film and he joined Justine Toh to discuss it with a focus on one story in particular: a brutal, unsentimental but life-affirming account of a woman coming to faith.