Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1879 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-11-03
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Very few films achieve subliminal greatness with cross-cultural impact, but Walkabout is one of those films--a visual tone poem that functions more as an allegory than a conventionally plotted adventure. Considered a cult favourite for years, Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film centres upon two British children who are rescued in the Australian outback by a young aborigine. Through exquisite cinematography and a story of subtle human complexity, the film continues to resonate on many thematic and artistic levels. Just as Roeg intended, it is a cautionary morality tale in which the limitations and restrictions of civilisation become painfully clear when the two children (played by Jenny Agutter and Roeg's young son, Lucien John) cannot survive without the aborigine's assistance. They become primitives themselves, if only temporarily, while the young aborigine proves ultimately and tragically unable to join the "family" of civilisation. With its story of two worlds colliding, Walkabout now seems like a film for the ages, hypnotic and open to several compelling levels of interpretation. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Special Features
English
Region 2

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. A commentary on pastoral simplicity versus cosmopolitan clutter, this haunting film marked Nicholas Roeg's directorial debut. Based on the novel by James Vance Marshall.

Customer Reviews

Haunting
'Walkabout' is an incredibly beautiful film and haunts you in a way almost beyond comprehension. The fact it is so subjective means it is a film to be revisited time and again. The only thing I can liken it's effect to is poetry. The lyrical nature of it, the stunning cinematography...I'd like to think that the entire meaning of the film can be tied up in the final scene where the character of Jenny Agutter loses herself in recollection- it has all the sense of sorrow for something lost that can never be found again, which is perhaps as good a summing up of the film as I can create.
Probably not for those who cannot stand 'meandering' or who like absolutism in films; for everyone else a hedonistic joy.

perfect
jenny agutter gets her kit off and swims in a pool in an extended and gratuitous scene. perfect.

Beautiful...beautiful beautiful
Yes a realy lovely and touching and unique movie.If youhavent seen this you must see it now you will never forget the experience.

Kind Regards

Jim Clark aka poetryanimations at youtube