Exclusive: first look at the trailer for Simon Baker's film adaptation of Tim Winton's Breath

Winton’s award-winning coming of age novel had a ‘profound effect’ on Baker, who translated it for the big screen in his directorial debut

An image of two teenage boys suspended in a murky ocean opens the trailer for Breath, the new film adaptation of Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel, featuring Richard Roxburgh, Elizabeth Debicki and Rachael Blake.

The trailer’s launch on Sunday offered the first glimpse into The Mentalist star Simon Baker’s filmic interpretation of Winton’s 2008 coming-of-age novel, which follows two risk-taking teenage boys, Pikelet and Loonie, inhabitants of a small coastal Western Australian town, whose chance encounter with an older local surfer, Sando, opens them up to new ways of understanding the world.

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