Walkabout
Nicolas Roeg / AU, 1970 / 100 min.
Romantic masterpiece about city children who meet an Aboriginal boy by chance in the wilderness. Chronicle of a cathartic trip though the Australian outback, about the search for harmony between the city and the wilds.
Seemingly out of nowhere, a father decides to take his children into the wilderness to put an end to it all. His fourteen-year-old daughter and her younger brother survive his attack, but then become lost in the Australian outback. This is the start of a long, cathartic trip during which the two children meet an Aboriginal boy during his an initiation rite ('walkabout'). He teaches them to survive in the elements.
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Director
Nicolas Roeg
Production year
1970
Country
AU
Original title
Walkabout
Length
100 min.
Language
English
Format
DCP
Part of
Cinema Ecologica
Much in life is uncertain, but one thing is sure: climate change. Cinema Ecologica focuses on how film directors depict the relationship between humanity and the earth: from nail-biting disaster films to artistic meditations, from romantic nature experiences to astounding science fiction.
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