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Review 1DiscussionA review by Wuchak
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Written by Wuchak on Sun Oct 24 2021
_**Arty flick about survival in the Outback and coming-of-age**_
A teenage girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother get stuck in the Outback, but receive assistance by an aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) on a ‘walkabout,’ a rite of passage into manhood.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg, “Walkabout” (1971) is an arty cult flick that plays like a Terrence Malick film and no doubt influenced his style (since it came out two years before Malick’s feature film debut with “Badlands”). Agutter was only 16 during shooting while her character is 14, according to Roeg.
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Keywords
- australia
- suicide
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- hunter
- picnic
- wilderness
- camel
- tribe
- coming of age
- flashback
- survival
- teenage girl
- death
- outback
- geologist
- rite of passage
- australian aboriginal