Breath review – profound Tim Winton adaptation swirls with soul and beauty

Simon Baker’s directorial debut is poetic without being pretentious, capturing the natural beauty of the Wa coast and the complexity of coming of ageBreath, the feature film directorial debut of the actor Simon Baker, begins with a shot of white light flooding the frame.

An image of a body under water gradually comes into focus.From that opening moment the film’s colour grading has a misty and melancholic quality, as if emulating seafoam or mist from the crest of a wave.

The cinematography is as concerned with distribution of light as it is colour and movement, presenting big, airy, oxygen-filled compositions.

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