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Walkabout

1971

Nicolas Roeg

Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil, John Meillon ...

7.0

2,189

Drama Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Aborigine on "walkabout": a ritualistic separation from his tribe.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Walkabout' is a superb work of storytelling and its material is effortlessly fascinating. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"It's a deep film, but also elusive, accepting that some mysteries can never be solved."	POS
United States	Paste Magazine	"It’s a commentary on unresolvable conflicts between races, cultures, generations, sexes; a vision that is at once primal and sophisticated (...) a brutal—yet flawless—cinematic landscape."	POS
United States	TV Guide	"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"	POS
United States	John Petrakis Chicago Tribune	"The transition from cinematographer to director can be a bumpy ride, but few have navigated it as well as British filmmaker Nicolas Roeg"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Nicolas Roeg’s art-house adventure is lyrical and intoxicating."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"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."	NEU
United Kingdom	Luke Buckmaster The Guardian	"Roeg revels in the hallucinatory, creating a wilderness that exists as much in the mind as it does the land."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"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. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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