Alexander says: “A haunting masterpiece that needs to be seen projected.”

Two coddled children are stranded in the vast, unrelenting Australian outback. They cross paths with a young Aborigine who teaches them to cope with their environment.

“Much has been written about the “fragmented” style that Roeg has employed in so many of his films—Don’t Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), and Bad Timing (1980) all play with linear narrative, setting subtle traps for the viewer and commanding our close attention. In Walkabout, this style serves to enhance the sense of memory that pervades the film. All coming-of-age stories are fundamentally memory stories, rooted in recollections of a time of great intensity, of growing, of puzzling, of understanding. We look back at that stage in our life and find memories of the pain we felt and the pain we inflicted, unthinkingly, because we did not understand ourselves and our burgeoning relationship to a new, strange adult world. The strangeness of that world for the girl in Walkabout is deepened by the landscape; for the aboriginal boy, it is deepened by his encounter with people for whom his lifelong training has ill prepared him.” — Paul Ryan