Walkabout
1971 · TMDB 7.3
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
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.
Why it matters
Nicolas Roeg strands two city children in the desert with an Aboriginal boy, and the country does the rest. John Barry's score and Roeg's fractured editing make the landscape feel like a mind you cannot read.
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Released
- 1971-07-01
- Studio
- Si Litvinoff Film Production
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.3
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