Walkabout (Film)
- Jenny Agutter: the girl
- Luc Roeg (as Lucien John ): the brother
- David Gulpilil: the natives
- John Meillon: the father
- Peter Carver: No Hoper
Walkabout is an Australian movie from the year 1971. Directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is the first film, the cinematographer Roeg realized are self- directed. The film is based on the 1959 novel, The Children ( The Children; later under the title Walkabout ) by James Vance Marshall. Walkabout is associative cut.
Action
A young girl is stranded with his little brother in the Australian outback. Her father suddenly opened fire on his children, put the car on fire and killed himself after yourself you will meet an Aborigine boy who goes on a journey through the busy desert with them. This trip is becoming an initiation, the Walkabout. The civilization accompanied the three in the form of a transistor radio. The Aboriginal boy rescues the two, although they do not understand, but brings thus in danger. After a dance, he commits suicide. The girl returns to civilization and getting married.
Criticism
" [ ... ] A sensitive, easily woodcut -like from today's perspective critique of civilization, at the same time a suggestive blend of expressive images and original sounds, set in a quasi- mythical space of fascination and threats to human life. " ( Filmdienst )
The magazine Slant thought of Michelangelo Antonioni and Jacques Tati, and concludes: " [ ... ] an understanding that humanity is our greatest natural resource, does no harm. "
Images: " an elusive film" ( to elusive film) "Some of the [ to Jenny Agutter ] agree well with the Point of View of the Aboriginal [ ... ] ".
Ekkehard Knörer: "And then, without comment, the hard cut in the future. But [ ... ] What else is on the way, how is this way to read, for the viewer, for the figures. Something closes without opening up. "
Roger Ebert posits: " The film does not forget you. " (No one who saw Walkabout Has ever forgotten it).
Awards and nominations
- Golden Palm nomination for Nicolas Roeg. The award went to The Mediator by Joseph Losey.
Others
- The American folk-rock band The Walkabouts took its name as a tribute to this film.