Walkabout Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg / United Kingdom, Australia / 1971 / 100 min / English

Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.

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When a teenager and her little brother get lost in the endless Australian desert, they have only one goal: to get back to the comfort of city life. Faced with a lack of water, scorching sun and animals lurking in the sand, they come across a young Aborigine. Even though they do not speak the same language, he becomes their guide on a journey that goes beyond the search for one’s home address. In this survival film, full of shots that only the 1970s could afford, the images of the sandy and the concrete wasteland make us wonder about their oppositions and civilisation today.

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