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Walkabout (1970)

Director: Nicolas Roeg

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From Time Out Film Guide

Roeg's second film (made after the massively delayed Performance) is at first sight uncharacteristic: the story of two posh English kids abandoned in the Australian outback and left to fend for themselves when their father commits suicide. In fact, the shimmering light and colour, the conflict of cultures, and the emergence of semi-mystic sexual forces in the desert landscape make this as Roeg-ian a film as The Man Who Fell to Earth or Bad Timing. Only the rather cute casting of Jenny Agutter as an English Rose and some implausibly romantic moments detract.

Author: CA

Time Out Film Guide


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Cast & crew

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Producer: Si Litvinoff

Cast: Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil, John Meillon full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Duration: 100 mins

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