Walkabout
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Two siblings stranded in the Australian outback after their father’s suicide, try to survive with the help of a young Aboriginal. Roeg, in one of his classic masterpieces, turns their odyssey into a magical dreamscape.
The marvelous "Walkabout", which is the first solo directorial work of Nicolas Roeg, uses the language of the images more than it uses that of words in order to tell the story of the odyssey of two children from the big city into the wild Australian desert and their agonizing efforts to survive until they find the traces of the way back. An under aged member of the Aboriginal native people, who follows into the desert the unfavorable initiatory path ordered by his tribe, will try to help them. Fascinated by the magic of the landscape, Roeg eliminates the strict sense of time and adopts an ambiguous narrative where the protagonist is the dazzling and mysterious steppe. Making sure from the start to relieve us from the burden of a clear cut story, he gives to the element of wondrous decor psychedelic shades, gradually distancing us from the real and plunging us in an audiovisual illu- sion that is only interrupted by intercalary modern life images. The result is a ritualistic cinematic experience on the juxtaposition of the so-called civilized world with the primordial physical universe and a precipitation in the charming mystery of human communication.
Walkabout - trailer from NyxtesPremieras
Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Nicolas Roeg
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Edward Bond
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Nicolas Roeg
Μουσική / Music
John Barry
Μοντάζ / Editor
Antony Gibbs, Alan Pattillo
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg
David Gulpilil, John Meillon
Ην. Βασίλειο, Αυστραλία / United Kingdom, Australia
1971
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
100’
Αγγλικά, Αβοριγινά, Τσέχικα, Γαλλικά / English, Aboriginal, Czech, French
