Roeg and his scenarist Edward Bond (BlowUp) aim for the mind and miss wildly. Their preachy, anti-intellectual Natural Mannerisms are neither convincing nor new.
Walkabout
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United Kingdom, Australia · 1971
Rated PG · 1h 35m
Director Nicolas Roeg
Starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon
Genre Adventure, Drama
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Two city-bred children are saved by an Aboriginal boy when they escape from their father, who intended to kill them in the Australian outback. As they travel together in the wilderness, the film highlights the discord between nature and modern life, and the feeling of being lost no matter where you are.
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Entertainment Weekly by Chris Nashawaty
Nicolas Roeg’s art-house adventure is lyrical and intoxicating.
Roeg shoots every figure in the film like an instructional visual subject, and it levels the philosophical playing field—whether man, or ant, or echidna, or gnarled tree stump, they’re all fodder for the experimental interplay of light, shadow, and space.
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
A strange, vivid tale of two British schoolchildren stranded in the deserts of the outback.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
For the most part, Walkabout is an involving, occasionally hypnotic, motion picture. Some of the photography, including images of the outback and its denizens, is spectacular.
Roeg’s film contrasts Western corruption with native goodness, but it’s naïve by design, and ultimately concerned more with the way all innocence passes than with the politics and particulars of any single part of the world.
It's a deep film, but also elusive, accepting that some mysteries can never be solved.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Roeg's points about the contrasts between noble savages and civilized effetes don't stand up terribly well over time.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Walkabout is a superb work of storytelling and its material is effortlessly fascinating.
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