DVD Features:
- Region 1; USA & Canada
- Keep Case
- Director's Cut
- Letterbox - 1.78
- Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
- Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Nicholas Roeg - Director, Jenny Agutter - Actor
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Essay: by Roger Ebert
- Chapters:
1. Logos
2. Credits "Hymnen"
3. The Wall
4. Pool by the Sea
5. Picnic
6. "Gasoline Alley" Bang! Bang!
7. Radio On
8. "It's the Sea!"
9. Oasis
10. The Boy
11. Ancient Camels of the Outback
12. The Dead Doll
13. The Limbs of Ghost Gums
14. Sunburn
15. The Story of the Boy on the Ladder
16. The Painting Wall
17. Heat and Desire
18. Ecstasy
19. "Los Angeles"
20. Plastic 'Roos
21. Home Sweet Home
22. Blood Lust
23. Last Dance
24. Suicide
25. The Road To...
26. In Her Mother's Shoes
27. "The Shropshire Lad" - Final Credits
28. Color Bars
Entertainment Reviews:
Chicago Sun-Times - 01/24/1997
"...WALKABOUT is a movie of restless images that are forever etched into one's consciousness..."
USA Today - 04/04/1997
"...With gorgeous outback photography....The movie is sensual, even erotic..."
Entertainment Weekly - 05/13/2010
?WALKABOUT is a condemnation of the modern world, but its politics are subtle and unspoken. A gem.?
A.V. Club - 05/19/2010
"The title comes from a ceremonial rite of passage observed by some Aborigines that sends boys off to fend for themselves before becoming men, and much of WALKABOUT hangs in the last moments of a state of grace."
Sight and Sound - 09/01/2010
"Roeg takes the story and from it fashions a piece of 'pure' cinema through the use of mesmerising images of the landscape..."
Description by OLDIES.com:
Nicolas Roeg's mystical masterpiece chronicles the physical, spiritual, and emotional journey of a sister and brother abandoned in the harsh Australian outback. Joining an Aborigine boy on his walkabout - a tribal initiation into manhood - these modern children pass from innocence into experience as they are thrust from the comforts of civilization into the savagery of the natural world.
Product Description:
Nicolas Roeg's solo directorial debut is a haunting, unconventional narrative film that presents a bleak vision of civilized life as arid and unrewarding. Abandoned in the Australian outback, two young white children (Jenny Agutter and Roeg's son Lucien) stumble upon an adolescent Aborigine (David Gulpilil), who is performing a "walkabout." In this ritualistic six-month journey, the boy must learn to survive by himself in the imposing desert. Communication is a problem, although more for the girl than for her little brother, who still has a child's ability to communicate simply and directly. The two teenagers fail to connect for a variety of reasons, mostly due to the girl's lack of interest in a culture that is unfamiliar and different from her own. Ultimately, the differences become too much to bear, resulting in a tragic conclusion that adds an even more somber denouement to Roeg's already grim vision. Based on the novel by James Vance Marshall, WALKABOUT is a powerful commentary on pastoral simplicity versus cosmopolitan clutter, and features stunning cinematography from Roeg.
Plot Synopsis:
After a pair of British children are abandoned in the Australian outback, they join up with a young Aborigine who is performing his traditional, coming-of-age rite of passage, the Walkabout.
Plot Keywords:
Bucolic |
Children |
Coming Of Age |
Essential Cinema |
On-The-Road |
Recommended |
Self-Discovery |
Teenage |
Theatrical Release |
Wilderness
