Somersault is an awful film. 

13 AFI awards mean nothing when you look at the nominees list and see what kind of rubbish the film was up against. 

The music is airy fairy and dull, the visual (blue!) style is unoriginal, tacky and lacking in depth. Cate Shortland's made some fantastic short films, but as with another great Aussie hope Ivan Sen, her first foray into feature film-making is emotionally and socially immature, not to mention grossly under-written. 

She consistently cuts away from scenes before they're fully realised, i assume as an attempt at some kind of elusive "euro" feel, but the finished product is really quite naive in the ways of modern art cinema. She needs to sit down and watch some proper films before her next foray into the world of yet more irrelevant Aussie celluloid waste.

Cornish however, is an absolute revelation and the only reason i sat through the whole thing.