Walkabout

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Call Number: Blu-ray Drama Walkabout
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Based on the novel by James Vance Marshall.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.
Special features: audio commentary from director Nicolas Roeg and actress Jenny Agutter, video interviews with Jenny Agutter and actor Luc Roeg, Gulpilil- one red blood (2002): an hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil, theatrical trailer.
David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, Lucien John.
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Blu-ray; region A; mono.; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio).
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Contents: Walkabout.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

It's true, it's hypnotic, and memorable. submitted by lisa on July 30, 2019, 10:08am Never seen another film like it. I guess it boils down to an adventure journey, but it's kids. It's some strikingly challenging wilderness. Very nicely done.

Walkabout submitted by jibkidder on August 6, 2022, 9:15pm Roeg was a film editor and his films serve, in a way, to purify his editing style, to let it exist without being subservient to another's vision or another's story. As a result, his films are elliptical (I would have to imagine a big influence on the films of Claire Denis) and highly visual. Of his earlier works this is both his clearest and my favorite.