Arguably director Nicolas Roeg's most enduring success, Walkabout is a complex, poetic cinematic experience. Roeg's overactive sense of symbolism is well-suited to the films themes of loneliness, alienation and social consciousness. Walkabout retains the director's offbeat style -- very little dialogue, shifting points of view, graphic, often shocking images, and an almost misanthropic world view -- but has a coherence and emotional depth missing from much of his later work. Though film's plot is often fascinating, it is Roeg's use of the camera -- both in broad strokes and minute observations -- that propels the film. He treats his characters as just one aspect of the sumptuous beauty and horror at play in the Australian outback.
Walkabout (1971)
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Genres - Action, Adventure, Drama, Nature |
Sub-Genres - Adventure Drama |
Release Date - Jul 1, 1971 (USA) |
Run Time - 95 min. |
Countries - Australia, United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - PG
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