Walkabout

  • Adventure
  • Drama
7/1/1971
95
PG

A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier.

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

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  • Wuchak

    Arty flick about survival in the Outback and coming-of-age

    A teenage girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother get stuck in the Outback, but receive assistance by an aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) on a walkabout, a rite of passage into manhood.

    Directed by Nicolas Roeg, Walkabout (1971) is an arty cult flick that plays like a Terrence Malick film and no doubt influenced his style (since it came out two years before Malicks feature film debut with Badlands). Agutter was only 16 during shooting while her character is 14, according to Roeg.

    The themes about the beauty of nature vs. man-made desecration and the clash of the primitive with the cultured & the problems of communication thereof were probably fresh at the time but ...

    October 24, 2021

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