Walkabout (1971)

7.9	Listal rating
7.6	IMDB rating

Directed by

Nicolas Roeg

Starring (View all)

Girl

White Boy

Black Boy

Man

Robert McDarra

Man

Peter Carver

No Hoper

John Illingsworth

Young Man

Hilary Bamberger

Woman

Written by

Edward Bond

James Vance Marshall

novel

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WALKABOUT Trailer (1971) - The Criterion Collection

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A true must-see

1 year, 5 months ago at Dec 13 19:35

PvtCaboose91

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"I expect we're the first white people he's seen."

Enthralling at surface level but challenging underneath, Walkabout is a movie that's more than the sum of its parts. It adheres to a few recognisable subgenres (one could contend it's a mix of a road movie and a coming-of-age tale), yet such distractions are not what this picture is truly about. Director Nicolas Roeg has crafted a d... read more

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Release date : 1 July 1971
UPC: 037429123225

Suicide (6), Drama (4), Coming Of Age (3), School Uniform (3), Very Little Dialogue (3), Australia (3), Adventure (3), Wilderness (2), 1971 (2), Animal Killing (2), Aboriginal (2), Nudity (2), Female Nudity (2), Language Barrier (2), Australian Aboriginal (2), Indigenous Culture (2), Girls' School (2), Listening To A Radio (2), 1970s (2)

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"Kurosawa's rain provides us with a knowingly cinematic form of nature; Walkabout's nature is also cinematic - many critics have pointed out the staged and 'unnatural' quality of Roeg's Outback - but staging makes our alienated being in the world all the more explicit than possible with a naturalistic approach. The white kids in Walkabout are not only alienated from nature, but from their own humanity, as experience through their encounter with an aboriginal boy engaged in the quest that provi"