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Jenny Agutter on Walkabout
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2018
- Actress Jenny Agutter, one of the stars of Nicholas Roeg's 'Walkabout' talks about making the film.
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I was 15 when this came out. I was in awe of both the film itself and Jenny. As an adolescent boy my motives were maybe obvious but the film totally overshadowed those motives. It still haunts me to this day.
I second that. Jenny’s comments about the different layers in the film are very apposite. I originally watched it when it came out, and revisited it a few months ago. It had a very different effect on me. I love that there are only a few movies, books and pieces of music that have this power. They are to be treasured.
btw dyu know she was in "Logans Run"
I was head over heels in love with Jenny Agutter when I saw her in Logans Run when I was 11 - she was and still is one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen
were the same age i still love her
Weren't we all!
She is a marvellous full breasted woman
She had the grace of an Asian woman
Me too
My dad insisted I see this when I was a difficult adolescent. Once it started, I was utterly mesmerized. Still one of the best films I've ever seen.
cool dad!
@Cam Robertson lol you should specify that it’s “difficult” only for young males! 😉
Hey, me too!
I saw Walkabout on TV in 1975, when I was 14 y/o. Extraordinary film, incredibly shot and of course I fell madly in love with Jenny.. Still am all these years later.
As well you should be...so am I :-)
@@zenpaganwarrior We all STAY in love with Jenny Agutter.
I saw it several times on TV, but I kept missing the first 15 or 20 minutes or so. It took me years to find out *how* and *why* they were stuck in the outback. I don't think I ever saw the beginning until I bought the DVD.
I think she was actually seventeen at the time.
I have seen literally hundreds and hundreds of films, but this one I always return to, for some reason, I find it quite heart breaking
The first time I saw Jenny Agutter was in "The Railway Children". The next time I saw her, she was swimming naked in a rock pool in Walkabout. I don't think I ever really recovered from the shock!
Me too...!
had forgotten the Railway children!
nice to see a natural woman for a change.
P. Jacobs
That's because you are a pervert!
The railway children,the only film she did where she didn’t get her kit off :)
Love you Jenny,a true English Rose.
David just died today! RIP!!! :( I first saw it when released in the theater at 15 or 16 years young so I connected to it intensely and it moved me deeply. It was a very impressionable romantic stage of my life as a young Black American teen. I loved all the cultural, environmental, adventurous, symbolism and pubescent romantic elements. The pond scene was something I've been fortunate to experience during my young life traveling many times now which often made me reflect on the same emotions I felt during that scene. Still a film I can watch today and get almost the same emotional response with a heavy dose of nostalgia & longing for the innocence one has in youth. Just like Jenny's character seemed to be experiencing at the end of the film when she is portrayed a wife and adult. BTW like many, I thought she was one of the beautiful actresses I'd ever seen at the time! Perfect casting! Thank you for sharing your insights into the making of a classic! Again may David Rest in Peace. Serendipity or coincidence, I just watched a modern film with him on Cable TV.
Arguably, one of the finest films ever made.
"Walkabout" is one of the most memorable films I have ever seen. It had a point that is timely even in today's world.
I saw this movie in 1971 or 72... once seen, never forgotten... it disappeared for many years.. glad it's finally available..
The Way Jenny Agutter.
Is explaining the film, is most Wonderful!!
The Film, i have known for decades.
It has always been with me!!!
Final thought.
I said, Hello to Jenny Agutter, in a petrol station in Cornwall, England.
Around 15 years ago.
I was nearly without words.!!!
So,
Thankyou for Sharing this Video 🙏😍🤺
Brilliant evocative film. Incredibly well cast. Agutter is a class act. A brave and honest actor. Saw the film again last year and it has lost none of its power. Nicholas Roeg cast it perfectly. RIP David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu who passed away last year. An amazing natural performer and a leader in the Australian film industry. He is deeply missed.
This has always been one of my favorite films of all time. Jenny gave such a nuanced and accurate interpretation of this film I have learned a deeper meaning. Great art is great passion and we in the audience will feel that. Thank you Jenny for sharing your insight.
Walkabout was brilliant and the 3 main actors were just sensational, have this movie since 1971, and have watched it so many times, never gets old.
How did you have the movie since 1971?
One of my favorite films, ever since I saw it for the first time 35 yrs ago. The two swimming scenes (Ms. Agutter, in the middle of the movie) and at the end, with the Girl, the Boy and the Little Boy, all naked, is truly one of the most beautiful scenes in modern film. They are absolutely innocent, playing in the beautiful springs, as though they're part of the Garden of Eden.
Yes I watch it when it first came out, you could feel the sexual chemistry between Jenny and the black aboriginal guy, they gave each other many sexual glances towards each other half way through the film, I'm convinced they had a sexual encounter while her little brother was asleep, and you could see Jenny glowed in the aboriginal guys presence, she certainly got all wet and moist, I've masturbated many times thinking of Jenny in the Australian outback with that randy aboriginal boy..😳
That's the thing that's so nice; naked innocence, purity. An attractive form of love minus abuse or exploitation. Like a true garden of Eden.
I loved Walkabout. It's one of my favorite movies I've ever seen. It's so deeply felt. I never saw another movie like it and it really touched me deeply
It almost reaches a religious experience. Harrowing and beautiful. A real classic!
I agree-looking to see it again after all these years!
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It was great to see this interview and Jenny's explanation of aspects of the movie which i saw when i was 10. Like many i fell in love with her seeing her in this movie. She's still as beautiful as ever. RIP David.
Being an Australian and seeing the film when I was quite young, one couldn't help be captivated as it was so left of centre. Even now it's still a masterpiece, though I feel a lot of people don't get it - yet it is still in many ways a very contemporary film. I rank it alongside the 1971 Australian film (made at the same time) 'Wake in Fright', a very powerful and confronting film.
Thanks for the recommendation. Downloading it now.
Walkabout is one of the greatest films of all time, and I've seen a lot of films. While I first discovered Jenny Agutter when I saw Logan's Run decades ago, I just today saw Railway Children for the first time and appreciate all the more how great an actress she is. I used to think of this film as a Nicholas Roeg movie. Now I see it's a collaboration between a great director and a great actress who was extremely thoughtful and gifted at a very young age.
This woman set the bar for me when it comes to the standard of what a truly timeless beauty is and still does now. She is up there with the timeless true visions like Marilyn, Sophia and a good many others.
Too true
Same for me.
she was attractive but comparing her to marilyn monroe is pushing it
@@titteryenot1136 , Jenny has the totally natural gift of 'sex appeal' she can't help it. Other perhaps more gorgeous women just have'nt got it, it's God given.
@@titteryenot1136 For me there’s no comparison, JA naturally stunning, MM unfit and all hair dye and makeup. 🤷🏻♂ Horses for courses!
@@glenmaragon5201 marilyn was a Goddess,7year itch film,hubba hubba,,you can keep your railway children plain Jane,
Superb movie. Watching it for the first time as a teenage boy was really something else.
It captured something about growing up which can't be described.
Jenny Agutter was, and still is, sensational.
Extraordinary film. Saw it 40 years ago, forgot its name, and accidentaly came accross it again. Just a pity it is all cut up in TH-cam. I love the scene of David's dancing and how Nicholas plays with the windows, lights and shadows. Much food for thought throughout this film. Jenny, if you ever read these comments, I hope you got to meet the Beatles.
ROD'S DIY Solutions just buy a copy of the film
It's a movie that's both beautiful and difficult to watch at the same time. It's filled with lovely scenes of innocence, like Jenny swimming in the pool, or the three of them playing in a flashback at the end, or helping each other, but it's also full of scenes of death, of both humans and animals. It's a film about life.
Such a classy lady and actress; her beauty is timeless and her insight and intelligence puts other actors to shame. The epitome of English femininity.
That's exactly what I think about her.
A real
"English Rose"🌹
She is the double of a girlfriend I had/have from 1972 and her mindset is the same... SO much honesty/courage on display. That is the first impression I have...
She is stunning, even as Sister Juliette
It's so lovely to see this interview. She's the only famous person I've ever had my photograph taken with. Lucky me !
Lucky you, indeed!
Hold up you have met Jenny agutter
I saw "Walkabout" in 1972 on a double feature bill with "Kes". Both portray a rather dark and brooding view of the inexorable pull of civilization and I walked out of the theater somewhat depressed but I thought about both of them for a very long time... well, actually I never stopped. I was actually searching for some sort of news as to how such an extraordinary film is viewed or even remembered today. I'm pleased that it is and very well indeed. I'm especially grateful to hear Ms. Agutter speak on how it felt to film it. To whom it may concern, Thank You.
Walkabout and Kes - that's some double bill!
@@p.jacobs643 Agreed. I was very lucky to have been spending a week in Telluride, Colorado at a time when a wonderful Art House Theater actually had artful movies from all over the world daily. While there that week I went to that theater three times and most distinctly recall Kes and Wlakabout and oddly, and a lot less distinctly a fascinating little (Australian, I think) gem whose name I don't recall but was about an elderly gentleman imbibing massive amounts of alcohol trying to sleep and having odd and repeated dreams about his Son and Daughter-in-law. Kes and Walkabout just knocked me for a loop... unforgettable.
@@enorbet2 I hope you still have the opportunity and inclination to watch independent art-house films. Luckily, I have a small indi cinema just round the corner (Hamburg, Germany) and I often go there to watch whatever it is they're showing. It's always worth watching and I have seen so many fantastic films that I would otherwise have been entirely unaware of.
I was still a child, growing up in working-class England, when I saw Kes for the first time. I remember not being able to grasp how real it seemed. It felt so much like my daily experience that I felt I could smell it as much as see it. I understood the beauty, the absurdity, the cruelty and the sodden melancholy almost instinctively, because it was the same as my life. I had never seen a film about people like me until then. It was both shocking and fascinating.
All the best
@@p.jacobs643 Thanks Brother. Sadly I don't these days. I live in a very rural setting now, no theaters of any kind anywhere for many miles. I know exactly what you mean about Kes. I was in my 20s when I saw this double bill and between the two, and especially Kes, I left the theater like a raw nerve. They were devastating, but somehow beautiful in their honesty and clarity..
I saw kes when I was about 10 totally devastated me.
one of the most incredible achievements of this film is that it leaves so much to the imagination of the viewer, and it leaves you pondering, what a great work of art. One scene I love in particular is when the toy tin soldier is in the water hole, rowing, and the camera pans into the face of the tin soldier, so implacable
Thanks for posting this interview. Saw Walkabout years ago and I agree with Ms Agutter on her thoughtful, intelligent and artful perspective on the simplicity of the film. Was a film student in college, loved her performance in this and Logan's Run. Like most, I was in love with her as well as being very respectful of her talent and beauty. I have never been starstruck but to have a photograph with her would have been wonderful.
This film is sublime. Nic Roeg was one of Britain's greatest Directors.Everything is perfect here -from photography to casting to direction to the transcendental score by John Barry.
My mothers cousin Edward Bond wrote the screenplay.
Walkabout is one of my favorite 1970s films. And that’s a hell of a decade for great movies.
The film is a work of art. The last scene of the three of them in the rock pool is quite simply brilliant, holding that back until the end.
agreed
What a great perspective on that amazing film. Wonderful to hear how she worked and her views about it, all these years on.
By vast contrast, but important as a vital part of my childhood, The Railway Children, will forever be one of my all time favourites. I also love the remake, where she gets to play the role of the mother. Both, Walkabout and the original of The Railway Children, are serious classics and the joy for me is that they provide delight at polar opposite ends of the film and art spectrum.
She was and always will be, a class act.
Influential film for me, Watching in the late 1990's one evening and finding this compelling story with intense visual scences of the Australian outback. Important film contribution for many in understanding the Modern world and our place in it. Thankyou Jenny Agutter.
What a movie! The soundtrack is unbelievable!
Wonderful to see Jenny's perspective on an extraordinary cinematic work!
Watched this at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley when I was 19. I never viewed a film the same way after walking out of the museum when it ended. Been in love with Jenny from that day til this.
Jenny is a true professional of her art! She is so into what she does! Extraordinary xx
She is beautiful. I met Jenny at a film screening. Very generous with her time and a wonderful person to be with.
Wow I have worked in the Outback for the last 8 years and I visited and swam in Glen Helen waterhole near Alice Springs...didn’t realise it was the same waterhole where the ‘swim’ scene was filmed until I watched this 🥰
Love the poem at the end in Walkabout!. She can never change in age at least in the film
Walkabout - so raw - so beautifully unique . An Icon movie - will be historic - just so well done!
Met Jenny on the set of Diamond Geezer back in 2006, as lovely in person as on the screen.
I watched this when I was 5 my dad took me and I will never forget it..it really spooked me I guess I thought the boy could have been me..great movie..great story
my address is okay -
Walkabout is an extraordinarily beautifully crafted work of cinematic art.
It's wonderful to hear Jenny Agutter talking about Walkabout. I've seen it several times and would now like to see it again. David Gulpilil has had a long acting career following on from Walkabout including Crocodile Dundee and Rabbit Proof Fence.
I always loved this film that I first saw when I was very young. It resonates with me & has done continually down through the years like all classic films should do. Great art always challenges you that way.
Wow... what a surprise and a delight! "Walkabout" is certainly my favourite film and I was unaware this interview existed. It's fascinating to hear about its history and development from Jenny's recollections and observations. Great insight!
MY Jenny. I've been in love with her for decades. She's simply beautiful in every way.
that's not the real jenny.
I've rubbed more than one out over the years thinking about Jenny in walkabout.
A woman with class unlike the current Z Celebs.
@@crazyjay7676 😂😂😂😂
@@crazyjay7676 She was 16 at the time of shooting. So congratulations; you have passed the test and are an ephebophile.
Why would anyone give a thumbs-down to Jenny Agutter? They must be very strange people.
I love Jenny. She has been in many of my favourite movies. Walkabout. Logan’s Run. An American Werewolf in London. The Eagle has landed.
She played every man's dream nurse in American werewolf in London
What I loved about Jenny is the parts she played in the original and the remake of the railway children. The first version was almost word for word from the book and Jenny played Bobbie the oldest girl. In the remake she plays the mother and what I love is in the remake, the younger girl says to her mum, “mummy did you ever visit the railway when you were little “ ... I thought that was clever and really lovely ☺️
I've stumbled on this clip by accident. I saw this film when I was in my early teens.
Had a really emotive effect at the time. I want to keep that feeling. I won't watch it again for a long time.
No other movie has ever affected me so emotionally. I was born in Australia and i still live here. The landscape still absolutely spellbinds me and on another level scares me. Im sure to people who aren't from Australia know how emotionally stirring this film is because of its universal theme of losing innocence or growing up. It's really the essence of nostalgia. But as an australian, for me when I saw so many familiar images of the land I have lived my whole life on, and especially the final scene, was significantly harrowing.
Eloquently put 👏.
I'm in the UK and seeing this film in the early 70's has left an indelible impression on me.
The music is sublime......
Perhaps it was just a case of right time, right age, right Era....
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be anymore.
have you spent time in the outback ?? if not i implore you to. ALONE with your thoughts ( better if you could quiet them) the desert is a very special place, good for healing as well...
One of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.
Perfect accent, arched eyebrows, fetching eyelids and pretty teeth when she smiles.
Archetypal English rose, and a brilliant artist.
Why is it that with men actors people talk about their work and their roles but with women they mainly talk about their appearance?
Yes agreed!
@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 ...Why is it when a man expresses admiration for a woman's beauty, he gets creep-shamed?
(...And, the idea that women who love Sean Connery, for instance, don't love him IN SUBSTANTIAL PART due to his physique [he was a body builder when he started being cast in roles in theater and cinema] or his "manly charm", etc. is simply too ridiculous to accept.)
@@MrJm323 That’s not the point I was making. I was saying that women are judged more on their appearance than their acting ability. Connery was good looking but the main focus on him was his ability to bring to life Flemming’s Bond through his acting.
@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 Agreed, and almost every comment here, which is a male saying they're in love with her, totally proves your point!
Predictably, Jenny Agutter's later, unglamorous roles like the BBC drama 'Call the Midwife' (in which she plays a nun) are overlooked, while younger roles and especially ones with nudity/sex scenes like 'Walkabout' and 'An American Werewolf in London', are salivated over.
No wonder actresses complain about the dearth of good lead roles for women over 50. Their bankability depends in great part, on their bonkability! Men are in charge of course, so the Sean Connerys and Michael Caines are allowed to age and continue to fascinate in all kinds of different roles - even looking like hell, if the role requires it. Big double standards in the way female and male actors are regarded and rated.
I saw "Walkabout" as a Sneak Preview before its release. Years later at a science fiction I paid a premium to have breakfast with the con's guests; I selected John Landis (he was late: Joe Dante at the next table joked to us about that). Of those also at the table only one other participant and I were not star-struck, and chatted with him. At one point I asked him how he had selected Jenny Agutter to play Alex in "American Werewolf in London," adding her being one of my top favourite actresses.
"Have you ever seen 'Walkabout'?" he asked.
"Tes," I replied. "That's when I first fell in love with her."
He smiled: "That's when I fell in love with her too."
Years later she was in a Broadway show with Derek Jaboci, Michael Gough (and pre-Star Trek Next Gen) Colm Meany. I'd gptten my ticket for the performance the day after her December birthday (though I had had roses sent to the her at the theater *on* her birthday, simply wishing her a Happy Birthday, and ny name).
At the stage door meeting the actors, Derek Jacobi signed a copy of my "I, Claudius" book copy, Michael Gough signed a copy of a Doctor Who book at the segment discussing him as the Toymaker during William Hartnell's era (he was amazed I knew who he was; I pointed out I was aware of his many British horror films).
When Jenny came out, I asked her to sign an 8x10 of her from the little known Disney bio-pic film "Amy," as it was a nice portrait shot. She was amazed it was something less known than from "Logan's Run" or "American Werewolf" and such. I had a return address lable in my Doctor Who book. When she asked how to spell my name, I showed her the return address label. As she began to sign, she suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, you're the one who sent the flowers!"
I concurred, indicating with the timing of seeing the show, I felt it could be the only time I'd be fortunately to meet her (and to date, I was correct).
-- Sweet. And you met Derek Jacobi! What was the name of the play, if I may ask?
I was awestruck by this film, it was a cinematic masterpiece and Jenny she’s a true beauty.🙏🙏
What can I add to these wonderful comments, except you found a place in my heart, today that place still remains, from boy to man, now 65yrs, a work of art indeed, xx.
Love the film and Jenny Agutter is all class. The Housman poem 'Blue remembered Hills' fills me up with longing for innocence as it did Jenny at the end.
Jenny has just taught me that childhood is the real Eden. How did I miss that. Thanks Jenny 💙 Don't you just love highly intelligent people.
Good to see a celebrity who doesn't swear and carry on. 1😎💀
@@joonya66 She is a real celebrity not one of the recent crop of unknowns.
Jenny Agutter is a rarity. One of the few people who is as lovely on the inside as she is naturally beautiful on the outside.
I can also tell she is a kind and caring person, someone who seems very considerate.
I enjoyed this movie, and for the first time in a long time after seeing this interview, saw it again and it was more meaningful to me. I also loved the soundtrack, and also the weaving of flora and fauna and outback scenery which reminds me of the stark beauty of Arizona's Sonoran desert, which I live in, and its rim country, which is a 90 minute drive from Phoenix.
I am about seven years younger than Jenny, but being a young boy and later a teen when Logan's Run was released, her youthful look was easier to identify with, I found it easy to enjoy movies with young actors and actresses who were usually only seen in US situation comedies.
Jenny's interview makes one understand acting better as an art and an amazing vocation of entertainment actors and actresses share. A hotel guest service manager in the mid to late 80's, in the Napa Valley, I met the entire Falcon Crest cast and much of their crew, my hotel had their contract during their on location shoots.
They, like Jenny, when they had to talk with me, my staff, and some of our guests, also related as Jenny does some of the interesting things about acting. I knew Ana Alicia and Robert Foxworth and Lorenzo Lamas the best, but only had regular talks with Ana because she'd sit and talk with me when I filled in for my graveyard auditor. She reminded me so much, in her gentle manners, as Jenny Agutter in this splendid interview.
Thank you for this insight, I have always loved all Nicks work, having seen Walkabout many times, I recall also seeing Performance I think 42 times, and each film he makes is like a diamond, with so many layers and facets, at 16 your performance was just wonderful, we did meet, and you did take my breath away for a moment, you had just watched Sheila Gish in Rain from heaven, at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge, and I was the Stage Doorman, Thanks again Luv Jay
I rewatched Walkabout recently for the first time in maybe 40 years and enjoyed it on a very different level than as a teenager. Agutter makes some fascinating observations that really allow for a deeper appreciation of elements of the film and the story. And David Gulpilil was a remarkable actor, in this film and others.
This was a great film great acting and locations very well directed and artistic Jenny is a superb actress so natural and skilled in her roles a highly intelligent and beautiful woman love to have the privilege of meeting her and talking about her amazing career. God bless you Jenny your one of the best.
There's something very hypnotic about Australian films. Walkabout was one of the finest.
Spectacular film. Astute and articulate narration from Jenny Agutter. Lifelong impressions from all the performers in the classic film. And, a lifelong crush...of course.
...I saw this many times as a young teenager in the early 70's...it just captivated me...I fell in love with young... Jenny...the outback and David were...magic...
I saw Walkabout at age 20, and I never forgot it, like Jenny swimming naked, but it's the ending that I found astounding. The concept of willing oneself to death struck me then as shocking but entirely proper. There have been more than a few times in my life that such ability might have been a blessing. Jenny Agutter is lovely in every imaginable way, and to my way of thinking she's rather an ideal person and woman: Intelligent, observant, sensitive, perceptive, and likable. I thi k she'd be a perfect dinner companion.
I still watch Logan's Run every time it's on, including yesterday. I thought she looked hotter in the movie than Farrah Fawcett did.
I dont remember Farrah Fawcett in it
@@tonydoherty2190 When Michael York went to see the doctor about getting a facelift Farrah was the nurse.
@@musingsofamarine9601 I can only remember Jenny agutter she was stunning
@@tonydoherty2190 Yes, she was, but next time you watch it look for Farrah in a green dress, and her famous hair style.
Fantastic interview...... I fell In love with Jenny at thirteen in 1971 after I saw her in Walkabout.... That Film brought out a lot of emotions. A work of Art..... You can only say that about a handfull of Films........
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The Essence of this film, is the uniqueness of the Aboriginal of Australia’s ability to see further than the material world...to quietly give meaning without having to analyse verbally this this and that...David was such a wonderful young man, there is amazing footage of him performing in Aboriginal dance, where he was 1st “spotted “. So lithe, he was of the Ancient, cast into the 70’s ...Boom...he and his People are our oldest known living humans...in a most hostile environment of the biggest unforgiving terrain...yet they continue to survive...I will forever be grateful to have been privileged to peek into their world...which most of that is without words..minutes..hours can go by without verbal interaction yet we’re all on the same page! So to speak...David has walked an Amazing journey of 2 Worlds at a cost...but I for one seeing Walkabout all those decades ago...appreciate the profound effect it had on me as a young Maori girl Travelling in Australia in the 70’s, trying to take in the extreme racism, the stolen generation...I mean we were listening to, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, while White Australia was still taking Truckloads of children, as they had been for decades from their Mob, taken to cities to be servants...and the unthinkable ...One Day...We just Might bestow These most Amazing Nomadic People from the biggest Continent....the right to Live...on their Land as they choose....They are a Nation...within a Colonial Regime...a Regime that has Volumes on Anthropology, Religions, Space...but have ignored the ever present Living Jewel walking on this Planet...they are the People of the Third Dimension..tuning into the airwaves...The Songlines....David has two feet one firmly in the Old..one that kicks in and out of the Current..I love al his Works but to see him Dance...to watch the Ancient pour out...Deep Pool!👣
Amen this film imprinted so deeply upon me it's permanently affected my perception and thinking ever since I can quite happily reveal it is really a core component of my understanding of this world. Thanks Nicholas Roeg David Gulpilil and Jenny Agutter for bringing me this gift of immeasurable value. I had personally come to the conclusion, 20 years ago, that Aborigines were the first men and women, the first branch on the tree of humanity, probably protected, like so many other species, by their isolation. I watched Burnham Burnham claim the UK on behalf of native Australians. I watched him guard the lift in the Oracle's tower block in The Matrix. I have his book "A Traveller's Guide to Australia". There was a period of film making when Western culture went all responsible parent superego and tried to have an objective look at its relationship with other humans and the natural world, giving rise to films such as"Silent Running", "Soldier Blue" and "Walkabout". They are all, one way or another, a kind of "Paradise Lost". It would be nice to see a big improvement in living conditions for the world's first people, but books like "The Tall Guy" and documentaries like John Pilger's suggest otherwise.
I totally agree with other comments, Jenny was, is and always will be an incredibly beautiful lady, and a fantastic actress, I appreciate her giving this insight into the film which I thought was brilliantly made, I watch it whenever it is on tv, I think the nudity was well handled and photographed brilliantly, and the swimming scenes were fabulous, I think the music in that scene really made it work for me, but the whole film is a beautiful as Jenny is.
I was only 10 and living in England when this came out and I loved the movie, after living in Australia for 35 years I went to Alice springs the first time in I think 2012, when I saw the hills around Alice I was instantly taken back to the closing scene of the movie as they found civilisation.
still stunning!American Werewolf was my first intriduction on a CED disc in the early 80s Logan's run later on i saw in cable,child's play 2.then i heard about this gem,it's like discovering Age of Consent with Helen Mirren
If you're reading this..Ms.Agutter and Mr.John Roeg? I enjoyed your performance in "Walkabout".
Walkabout remains to this day one of my favourite films of all time. It is a masterpiece
What a nice lady. Very pleasant voice.
Excellent actress but had no formal training. She was always believable in every thing she did.
I'm very surprised she did not become a bigger star, very charismatic.
She gesticulates with her hands. I do this as well I am partially deaf. A very assured and beautiful person
I remember well seeing this film the first time, and I was enchanted. The scene when they were swimming was done so tastefully, it did seem to reflect an innocence somehow absent is our world. The final scene back in the city where she recalls the outback as someone recites A Shropshire Lad, remains one of my favorite scenes ever.
I'm glad I did not watch it in the cinema - blubbing at the end
such a wonderful film-didn't know about the background way back then-being an Aussie living in Seattle where I 1st saw the film at SIFF!
1980 my dad made me watch this. I didn't like my dad's old movies, so I groaned. Ended up loving this film, seen it countless times... I was a fan of Logan's Run and didn't even realize that was Jenny in Walkabout...
Quite a dark brooding masterpiece. I watched it when I was 13. I interpreted it a very different way!
It’s been heart breaking finding out about all of the competition I have. Yes I have been in love with Jenny for decades. It was really special seeing her in Walkabout when I was of a similar age.
This was so fascinating to watch. It really is a classic film. I could listen to Jenny speak all day.
Apart from all the other superlatives about this wonderful film, it was one of John Barry`s early film scores. Has there ever been a finer composer for film music?
Brilliant score. The music Draws you into the isolation 💚🎧
Indeed! A lovely soundtrack, very deep and moving, and certainly one of the best in cinema history. Another really great soundtrack by Barry is the one from 'Robin and Marian'.
I though Barry's music for Walkabout was badly out of place. It sounds like something for a low grade European romance movie. And, typically of Barry, it's much the same all the way through.
Same for his music for Dances With Wolves - lovely, but not after the same thing has been heard many times.
My favourite ❤️
Finer composer of film music? Yes, both John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith are vastly superior.
Amazing film. Captivating cinematography and scenery. I didn’t know anything about the Director till now. David Gulpilil made a big impact, he was also huge in Storm Boy. Great vid.
Very few films tell stories visually like Walkabout. I saw it when it first came out in the states in the early 70s. I had quit my job as a sales engineer in LA and taken a job working with Mexican farm laborers. I wanted to live life closer to the bone, experience hard work and a more natural existence. What a find! The film affirmed everything I was feeling inside. I never saw a movie like it again until The New World (2005): the primal contrasted with cultural conditioning.
Read the book then saw the film. The film was so true to the book. I love Jenny Agutter’s role in the film.
I saw walkabout in the theatre when it came out. It always was a movie that had a deep impact on me.
Logans run was my favorite movie .Jenny looks and sounds amazing to this day.beauty and class are timeless.
have you ever seen the movie Carrie - shape of water - the movie lost 24 million in band aids - and another 16 million in royalties - and still made 1.3 million at the box office in zoolander park -
i don't have a conflict of interest - SW is Prime time - and GN is close ups - and PRI launch site - and PRE test - i'm into hismiss with deltatau gamma verdi . . .
they like fizzz - less time - easier to get - and i'm working two jobs - because i get it right away -
The music is also great in this film gives it a great atmosphere
I saw this film as a teenager in the 60s in Sri Lanka. Even though my father implicitly gave me lot of morale guidance, it is this film which guided me on how I should behave with the opposite sex.
"Walkabout" 1971. I was 11 and smitten.
You want to know what I think made Walkabout such a memorable film? Nick Roeg was doing a smart thing when, in the final editing, he decided to include as many close-ups of Jenny gazing silently at some point set off-camera - places either close by or way off in the distance. I feel a lot of the story was conveyed in these instances thanks to her reactions, using her trademark somber assessment of all that she was perceiving. Thank you Jenny, and Nick .
What a very specific thing to compliment on. It shows you really were looking at the details of "Walkabout". 6/2020
Perhaps the greatest star is the outback itself, from which all this springs. Didn't realize Jenny was so young at the time, admiration for her mental maturity.
I read Walkabout when I was nine or ten and two years later when I saw the film I understood what grace, poise and beauty truly was... or so I thought and now all these decades later, I was right.
Emotional and stirring loss of innocence of young life on film with different cultures, well done everyone !!!!
That film had a profound impact and influence on my life
My spiritual and intellectual Life
I was in my teens when I saw it
Coming back to this interview to remember gulpilil.... rest in peace.
Jenny's sincerity shines through. I met her in the film Survivor, directed by David Hemmings, which was filmed in Adelaide in the late 70s.