| | Walkabout DVD (5 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Criterion Collection DVDs, Dramas Movies, Recommended Videos, Children (About), Essential Cinema, Teenage, Coming Of Age, Self-Discovery, On-The-Road, Wilderness, Bucolic | | Starring | Jenny Agutter, John Meillon, David Gumpilil, Lucien John | | Director | Nicolas Roeg | | Director of Photography | Nicolas Roeg | | Editor | Antony Gibbs, Alan Pattillo | | Producer | Si Litvinoff | | Screenplay | Edward Bond | | Story | James Vance Marshall |
DVD. Feature film. Dir. by Nicholas Roeg. 100 min. 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. 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. Shot on location in the Outback of Australia.
WALKABOUT premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 1971.
The film received a theatrical rerelease December 1996 through February 1997.
WALKABOUT marked the solo directorial debut for Nicolas Roeg, following his first film, PERFORMANCE, which he directed in collaboration with Donald Cammell. Walkabout Reviews: "...WALKABOUT is a movie of restless images that are forever etched into one's consciousness..."
-- Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times "...With gorgeous outback photography....The movie is sensual, even erotic..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today
This is the only David Gumpilil video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Lucien John. Walkabout | List Price | $29.95 (You save $6.56) | | Studio | Criterion Collection | | Orig Year | 1971 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3031  | | CD Universe Part number | 1235635 | | Catalog number | 120 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 06, 1998 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 100 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Mono Sound; Digitally Mastered; HiFi Sound; AC-3 Sound; Director's Cut; Widescreen; Criterion Collection |
Walkabout Movie Review Average Rating: (4.2 out of 5 stars)   Very well done
A young Girl saves her little brother from their father's self distruction. To meet a native who teaches skills to live in the outback. For the girl who now a woman to look back with loving enjoyment of the test she and her little brother completed as she is now living the life her perants once lived.
Submitted by a reviewer (Delaware, USA) 
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Watch the Commentary
Watched it through and felt I had missed something - like the whole plot! So I watched it a 2nd time with the commentary on. It made so much more sense! Then I watched it a THIRD time, that time without the commentary, and enjoyed it thoroughly because I understood exactly what was happening. It's wonderful. Highly recommend.
Submitted by planejane57 (minneapolis, MN, USA)
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This movie is mainly based on the difference in contrast between the uncivilized world to a civilized world, it represents aboriginality in many different ways, meek, strange, and alienated.
Submitted by chen (AU Gold Coast)
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Beautifully shot hypnotic masterpiece which may forever live in your memory. Beautiful teenager (Jenny Agutter) and younger brother end up lost in the Australian outback. They have a life-saving meeting with an teenage aborigine boy - and things come to a head...
In my top ten favourite films of all time - and maybe yours too?
As the New York Post said "This is movie making as good as it gets"
Submitted by ccwoodcock (Brighton, England)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  WORST MOVIE EVER
Hated it
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Walkabout DVD Region 1
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
Text/Photo Galleries:
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
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