Walkabout

Name: Walkabout
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Released: July 1, 1971
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Barry Donnelly, David Gulpilil, Hilary Bamberger, Jenny Agutter, John Illingsworth

1971

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Company | Release Date: July 1, 1971 | GP

Starring: Barry Donnelly, David Gulpilil, Hilary Bamberger, Jenny Agutter, John Illingsworth, John Meillon, Luc Roeg, Noeline Brown, Peter Carver, Robert McDarra

Summary: Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama

Rating: GP

Runtime: 100 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

One of the most original, visually stunning, and provocative films of the 1970s, Walkabout is timeless in its beauty and unique approach to a classic coming-of-age story. The film is arguably director Nicolas Roeg's finest achievement. Read full review

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Empire Kim Newman

It's a deep film, but also elusive, accepting that some mysteries can never be solved. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

Walkabout is a superb work of storytelling and its material is effortlessly fascinating. Read full review

Kenneth Geist

A richly picturesque, multi-leveled film. [20 May 1971, p.66]

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. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Roeg's bag is photography, but pretty pictures alone cannot sustain - and, in fact, inhibit - this fragile and forced screen adaptation of a James Vance Marshall novel. Read full review

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