Flirting: NFSA Digital Restoration

At a private boys’ school in 1965, class misfit Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) finds his romantic soulmate in Thandiwe (Thandie Newton), a precocious, intelligent girl of African heritage from the nearby private girls’ school. After misunderstandings and misadventures they come together for a sweet if regrettably brief period that neither of them will ever forget.

In this clip, Danny meets Thandiwe at a football match – which he refers to as 'a mating ritual'. Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts also feature.

Flirting is the sequel to writer-director John Duigan’s 1987 award-winning The Year My Voice Broke. It stars Noah Taylor and Britain’s Thandie Newton, in her first significant screen role, with memorable early roles for Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. It won the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Best Film, in 1990.

Flirting has been digitally restored as part of the NFSA Restores program. It premiered at Arc cinema in Canberra in August 2017.

John Duigan comments, 'The work of film preservation is of incalculable value to our culture. Without it whole swathes of our film heritage, including classics from the relatively recent past, may, sooner than we think, be lost forever.'