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...Most messed-up of all is Heidi, Shortland's angel with dirty wings, whose eternal openness almost leads to her destruction. In the film's most daring scene, she brings home two city boys to her room where, drugged out, she is passed around like a rag doll. Both funny and unbearably sad, the scene developed from intensive rehearsals with National Institute of Dramatic Art graduates Toby Schmitz and Henry Nixon. "It was almost as if it was just her body in the scene and not her soul," Shortland recalls. With Cornish's out-there performance (the light to Worthington...
...acting newcomer brings to Heidi a slow sensuality. She's disarmingly innocent, with the cheekbones of a young Nicole Kidman. But it's her upward-inflecting voice that perfectly captures adolescence, the state of self-discovery first mined by Shortland in Joy (2000), her graduating aftrs short. "You know what it is?" she muses. "I was reading about Gus Van Sant. He was saying that it's a time of life where you're open to the most change, and that makes for fascinating characters...
...What they didn't get rid of is a truthfulness that comes from characters drawn from life. Heidi was an art-school tomboy type Shortland had observed while working in a jeans shop in Canberra, where she grew up, while Bianca's Asperger's brother, in whom Heidi sees a mirror image of herself, is an amalgam of the children the director worked with as a teaching aide at a special school in Sydney. "There's something beautiful about their fixation with detail," Shortland recalls. The same could be said of her own painterly eye. And her extraordinary ability...
Matt FitzGerald, Tom Schutzinger and Pete Kelly of Decoder Ring are trying to decipher the lyrics sung by guest artist Lenka on the title track to their score for Somersault. It's a floaty ballad in which the film's ethereal Heidi imagines seeing a vision of her lover in snow clouds above the Australian Alps. As they do for the rest of the movie, Decoder Ring provide a soundscape of dark valleys and sunny alpine flourishes, from the deep chime of the glockenspiel to high-pealing piano and xylophone. But how exactly do Lenka's lyrics...
...crystalline quality of ice forming - Kelly calls it "glock rock." To get in the mood, the band spent two weeks in a makeshift studio near Kiama, on the N.S.W. South Coast. "We took a Method approach," explains FitzGerald. The acting analogy is apt, since the music provides much of Heidi's inner voice. You can hear it in Heidi's Theme, where a delicate xylophone arpeggio rises above the earthier glockenspiel, perhaps symbolizing Worthington's character Joe. But it's not all so harmonious. For Rough Sex, Decoder Ring provide a jarring guitar riff to accompany one of Heidi...