WALKABOUT Trailer (1971) - The Criterion Collection
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- A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg. Learn more: www.criterion.c...
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This kind of movie is NOT made anymore.
Visual Poetry that is accessible to All Audiences.
Images that evoke, and a Genuine story that breaks your heart.
Watched yesterday. It's still in my mind and i think it will be for long time. What a masterpiece. Such a sad story.
I saw this movie in a theater in Northern California about 40 years ago...absolutely incredible cinematography. Ever since I have tried to watch every Australian movie I could find and even a few tv shows. I have traveled overseas 7 or 8 times but regrettably never made it to Australia.
that is such a silly, lazy comment
This movie isn’t even an Australian film, made by British filmmakers and an American studio
I saw it around 1976 or 1977 while living in Cuba - I was just a kid around 6 years old. For years I could remember the film but not the title and in 1993 while going through some books I came across scene photos and finally I had the tittle. So much easier now to find old films thanks to the internet.
@Howard Kerr Hope that includes Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir's 1975 movie, not the dreadful tv series. Picnic & Gallipoli are beauties.
@@thomsboys77 Yes, same as Roeg's Man Who Fell To Earth, a British film tho set in America's South.
Rest In Peace, David Gulpilil.
:(
I cried when he died. He was a great man.
I saw this when I was 12 not remembering the name until now, absolutely mesmerizing
Love this film, the music is also incredible.
1953 - 2021 68yrs David Gulpilil
Rest In Peace now
This film is divine. One of a kind. Cinema lovers must watch....
The late sixties and seventies were the best times for cinema. It seemed more exciting and adventurous and took chances where modern movies are merely concerned with money and tapping into fixed demographics. Nicholas Roeg was a true visionary filmmaker with his fractured, non-linear style which becomes a cinematic jigsaw puzzle that the audience have to piece together. It is not a passive entertainment when seeing a Roeg film (although Walkabout is pretty straight forward) but it is a rewarding experience. Walkabout is stunningly beautiful, photographed by Roeg himself. He was a cinematographer who then became a director and has a very distinct visual eye. It is just worth watching for the lovely Jenny Aggutter. I do not know what this film was initially rated but there is quite a bit of nudity in it, but one never gets the sense that is sensationalistic or vulgar. One can draw many conclusions as to the films meaning which is always the mark of a great film that it's interpretation is open to various analogies. Marriage and the lack of communication between men and women is a commong theme in Roeg films so that is my own interpretation, especially a rather sad end scene.
Very well put, just seen this again last night on the beeb (BBC2). I must have been very young the first time I watched it. They sadly don't make them like they used to.
Victor James Watch John Curran's "Tracks". Makes an excellent double-bill with this.
same with Zulawski during the seventies
+GREG FREEMAN cool profile picture, good to see someone who likes the ken russell film altered states
I agree. The end was almost a resignation of being shoehorned into predetermined ideal of the life that these children were being groomed for at the beginning of the film. Her escaping for a moment through a cultural window to experience what would never be beheld again in her lifetime was a disappointing but clever culmination that Roeg wanted to achieve. The vast cultural and unbridgeable gap that would exist for generations.
Into my heart, an air that kills, from yon far country blows….. it took me 20 years, pre-Internet to find this poem in the rare book collection in a locked case upstairs at Huntington Public Library. Of course, it is by A.E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad” from which poetry was also used in “Out of Africa”. I saw this film summer 1961 at a little art theater near Orange & Trumbull where I had the ground floor room with a tiny kitchen along with several other great films of the era.
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
From "A Shropshire Lad" by A E Housman. A lovely film, AI saw it when I was 12.
"Faites vos jeux, mesdames, messieurs, s'il vous plaît."
That passage summarizes the golden moment of my life which I cherish and longingly miss; the haze of youth and innocence's twilight.
a wonderful poem
I read this in my reading comprehension class, it was one of those english learning books that are not too thick and are accesible. I always liked the story.
Goodbye beautiful etherial Gilpilil, he died on Nov 29th 2021 from advanced cancer. He was 68.
This film and John Barry incredible soundtrack 👌 has been with me since my youthful innocence, I only recently found out that lead actor David Gulpilil has passed away, this makes this clip even more heart wrenching. A song I wrote many moons 🌙 ago....
My soul forever restless....
My heart will always stray....
To the times that never come again.
Like love...
One Summers Day
👍 🎵🗝️
"In this place, Man is just another of God's creatures"
What a haunting but simple way to describe the wilds.
RIP Nic Roeg we will never forget your films
WHO??????????
@@grizzlycountry1030 Let me guess.. an overall wearing hillybilly from Aintree who voted trump and has never seen a movie in his life!??!
The director in the movie where his son Lucien played as the boy.
@@PhillipWhite-uz3wu BOJO a s s h o l e
My favorite film of all time.
"This place is no place for civilized man" while the civilized father is shooting at his daughter and son hahahaha
One of my favorite films. Super.
You really have swallowed the propaganda
@@blowme5258 i have no idea what you are talking about.
@@risingmoon07 Do a search for the background of the director. This is an anti - Wh.ite film
@@blowme5258 What is your point?
@@blowme5258 ((anti white film) lmaooo
Wow!.. this movie is 50 years old👍
Required school read. 8th grade. Las Vegas Nevada when the School District was #1 or close to #1 in the nation. Now it's like #49 in the nation. When he experiences the city noise and toxicity of Environment is a memory from the book. Facinating Story!
Love this,like a waking dream.
Do you mean Wake in fright ? (D. Pleasance)
My mother's cousin Edward Bond wrote this film. His father Gaston (Tony) was my grandmother Cornelia (Vi)'S brother. I’ve never met and there was only my late Auntie Pam who kept in touch with him.
Wow, I was wondering if you might be Bond’s 2nd cousin and now I know! My quest is officially over, as is that of the entire You Tube community. Auntie Pam sure was a ball of fire, wasn’t she?
seriously nobody cares bud, but good on the stranger
This is the one movie every human being should watch, again and again.
A Masterpiece indeed..!! Absolutely to the point brilliant..!! Thank you Nicolas and all significant others who made this film possible and citerioncollection and youtube for posting !!!
I agree that this kind of film is not made very often, but would point you to Malick's Tree of Life (2011) for powerful, beautiful visual poetry. It is not dead!
It's a film I had never heard about I was introduced to it by the film programme on BBC - a must watch masterpiece.
Read the book. It is quite different, at least in the beginning. If you haven't seen the film, you can see it free on TH-cam, but the print isn't as good as the Criterion. No one should miss this incredible film. A classic.
Yes it is, but I found it more esoteric and obscure. Walkabout has a genuine story, based on a Novel, and Roeg was a long time Cinematographer before directing films.
His visuals are profound and stunning.
Masterpiece that becomes apparent in close analysis and multiple viewings. It's the "Garden of Eden" story retold.
Sublime and tragically underrated music score by John Barry. Definitely a film that will stay with you.
👍 Absolutely! 🎵🗝️
I saw the movie two years ago but i loved it at the point that it has still in mind it was such a good movie, it made me love Australia more.
no one asked you to love Australia mate
@@stevenpkelleher f*ck off i love what I want..dirty racist🖕
This movie is so good.
Watched this movie ryt now and came here to see some wise comments of this evergreen gem of a movie which isn't appreciated by everyone...
Another Classic Nicolas Roeg film
Jennifer On My Mind...
Having recently been devastatingly overwhelmed with the Barry-scored brilliance of Roeg's "Outback" wonderment for the first time, it understandably had me obsessively delving into Agutter's filmography with some degree of zeal. My mother had always fancied "The Railway Children", which unfortunately, in respect to my late Mum, I have never seen. My exposure to Jenny's body of work was limited to childhood television viewings of "Logan's Run", until becoming wonderfully entranced with her shimmering filmic elegance during a theatrical screening of Landis' lycanthropic opus as a teenager. Other than James Salter's "Three", Nic Roeg's "Walkabout" is without question, the only film that has residually left me with the same dazzling feeling of heightened electric melancholia as it climaxed. Without a doubt the most emotionally-resonant movie I have ever experienced...
+firechiefrisley quite appropriate that the preview of your reply ends with "My exposure to Jenny's body..."
@@breadvanwinkle9573 Yeah... i'd go for her body then her body of work.
@@mikedowns8293 Shes also in An American Werewolf In London...
@@michaelbruns449: that was presumably what he was referring to with "Landis' lycanthropic opus"
R.I.P. David Gulpilil
there is a joy and sadness in this film
@WonderWomanFan4life I just saw that movie a couple of minutes ago and it is really true what you said. I kept wondering what had happened with the aboriginal boy. I think it was like a mating dance but the girl seemed really to try to distanced from him. Also, It broke my heart when the aboriginal kid saw the Australian hunters rapidly killing game and crying about it. So deep and beautiful.
لم افهم الفلم لماذا الاب قتل نفسه why his father killed him self
My dad took me to see this when I was 7, a very strange movie at that age.
Great film.
wonderful music this and the long day closers and the tree of iife and interstella are my favourite films Muholound drive and Lost high way to
My wife read the book said there was more nudity in the book that even Nicholas Roeg could get away with but lovely true story
I've lost count of the times I've watched this film it's ageless.
The haunting music and hopelessness that seems to get deeper and deeper at every mis turn
It's a credit to Nicholas Roeg's skill. I've been in the Australian outback and the difference between life and death can hang on a shoestring. On a single chance or mishap. He does a good job of steering you away from a few illogical premises that you ride with for the sake of the story. The first was the leaving behind the picnic as a source of food. She had the wherewithal to head for the nearest mountain to scale and survey the landscape. Hence why not just follow the tyre tracks of the car until they find a road.
Roeg's cinemaphotography is second to none capturing the flavor of every situation.
Yep; the outback can be a beautiful place, but if you don't know what you're doing/where you're going, it can snuff you out like a candle. You should NEVER take Mother Nature lightly; always listen to the locals; and respect her!
If I were on my death bed and could only watch one more movie, it would be WalkAbout.
What a stupid death wish!
I'd rather kill myself that watch this on my death bed
The people in this thread are nasty. Walkabout is definitely that kind of movie. Everything about it is so affecting...
R.I.P David Gumpilil
It's a brilliant movie watch it yesterday.
🙏🏻 please tell me the name of the movie🙏🏻🙂
Lol. Looks like I found another good old fashioned comedy made for the whole family. Such a heartwarming story filled with laughs and high adventure!
It's not really a comedy it has dark moments (trailers at the time were really bad to convey the tone of movies) but it's still worth a watch depending on the age of your children
@@withnail-and-i I think Kyle was being sarcastic. Like that spoof trailer for Kubrick's "Shining" presenting the film as good family entertainment.
While these movies are rarely made nowadays, I'd say Old Boy (2003) did a fairly good job. Also the work by Kim Ki-duk is worth mentioning since those are very humane stories. So if you want more resent movies with humane stuff going on, go check on Asia and especially South Korea
Now we have Moonlight
(huge fan of 3iron)
The TV show Coupling(UK version) got me interested in this film.
Remember this film as a lad, How technology for the better.....
Brilliant..!!
Jenny... what a beauty
Esta la dieron en HBO Olé hace 20 años, y aunque es de 20th Century Fox, nunca la volvieron a pasar en ningún canal.
love this film
esta pelicula es hermosa, se las recomiendo mucho:')
The girl was in BBC’s spy series Spooks right? She played tessa?
@Hugo411 i miss good old movies with spirit and emotion haha!!!
The aborigine is named as David Gumpilil, when his name was Gulpilil. He later appeared as Nev in Crocodile Dundee. Gawd I hate the bush :-)
It looks so interesting. I wonder if it"s available somewhere.
Oh, that was Jenny Agutter. Probably the film that made her career.
@ninjadance
it looked to me like someone shot the animals for example it may have been taken from real footage of those who shoot them for sport. i thought that was very sad
Wake in fright (with Donald Pleasance) had animal cruelty scenes. Great Aus film.
Thanks for share
i want to see this movie
It's beautiful.
And the full film is on TH-cam 😉
p.s. thats the dude thats behind that one dude in that one dudes show on HBO doood!
This is my English Enrichment study
Is it just me, or does Mary look like she is at least 18, rather than a 13 year old? I'm 13 and I look like a 6 year old compared to her XD
Jenny Agutter was 17 when this was filmed.
@@speedmastermarkiii She was 17 when the film came out, but 16 when it was filmed.
@@stevebarlow3154 I guess it depends on how long the shoot took. For example, the British Board of Film Classification decided Agutter was 17 when the nude scenes were shot, so the shoot might have extended into December 1969 or even early 1970.
@@speedmastermarkiii According to Jenny Agutter herself, she was sixteen when she did the nudes scenes. Not that it should matter, as the nudity is very innocent and non sexual.
@@speedmastermarkiii Fimed from august to december 1969.
Jenny Agutter was born december 20, 1952.
Beautiful film with great performances and Jenny Agutter in a school uniform! Christ cobber!
cough:technicallyaminorinthemoviemightwanttocalmdownabit:cough
"No place for civilised man." Try saying that line in a movie today.
Spell Davids name right please!!
cannibis or alcohol make this film more powerful
@Hugo411
yes it was visually lovely but some parts left unanswered. Like for example did you understand his dance? was it a death dance or mating dance? he was really crying in it too. poor kid. that girl basically treated him like a servant. She swam and swam while he was hunting for food, cooking, playing with her brother. she was not concerned about learning at all she had him.
I'm going to assume you're American, as only Americans want everything to be answered in movies/T.V. Those of us who aren't American don't always require everything to be neatly tied up at the end; we can live with the ambiguity or uncertainty.
that's the english for you
G U L P I L I L NOT GUMPILIL!!!
I'm having trouble finding this does anyone know why the father wanted to shoot his children
He had gone insane.
It's not clear, nor does it really matter
There's no explanation, but it could also be a metaphor for God, who created us out of love, without fully understanding how terrifying and tragic the life he gave us could be. You might think that God would have foreseen all of that, but what if he couldn't foresee all of it in advance, not having been human himself. If God could foresee that some of his children might be doomed to perish in the Outback, would he impose a more merciful death? Would he wish to, if he knew of the tragic pain and sorrow we would likely face?
Allyn McGillicuddy God did foresee everything. And He has been human in Jesus Christ. “In the beginning was THE WORD... And THE WORD became flesh”
I read it as a statement against modern “civilized” life. A businessman who has become alienated from his work life, and life itself. Something about that way of life that drove him mad.
I think the disconnect between man and wife at the end of the film is supposed to be the same thing - a disconnect between truly living, and living in the “civilized” modern world and moving up the corporate ladder. The woman realizes that they are perhaps perpetuating the same mad cycle that’s so out of touch with the natural world.
Great movie but definitely not for most
I don't agree
the lad is pretty intense: oh you want water, let me just stick this wooden straw into the GROUND!!
I remember this,a great picture but not for the faint hearted,wasn't Jenny Agutter pretty.
She is still quite fetching!
Sure they are! They're just overshadowed by Hollywood garbage.
How to describe this movie?
Unique, beautiful, violent and erotic.
Highly recommend!
I wonder what happen to movies nowadays,,,
2:04 she daydreamin bout that big black snake lol
😂
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where can I find the movie?
Check TH-cam 😉
Criterion Channel -- they have a free 7 day trial to start as well.
A terrible trailer for one of the most sublime films ever made. Obviously concocted for an American audience.
irl did gulpilil ever say if he got to tap that saucy jenny agutter?
Nothing to do with CH. Walkabout is a masterpiece. CH is just stupid.
Flea brought me here
"30,000 years apart." 🙄 People can be so pretentious about their purported progress sometimes. Looks like a very compelling movie otherwise though. Cheers.
His heart was broken by the whites shooting those animals and leaving their bodies without even taking the meat. The girl was nice to him. I'm not sure that Aborigine died either, since he was held under his arms by the tree fork under his armpits. I loved the Aborigines and old cars in the movie. Great scenery and Jenny was so young! Lots of animals were killed and eaten in this movie too! Peta would be mad!
it did not show the whites NOT taking the meat ... i dont get it. they were hunting. thats all and it was no different from an aboriginal pov of hunting. they shot one wild boar and then repeated the scene over and over. alborigines hunt boar all the time. so why would that haunt the boy enough to commit a ritual suicide? i dont think the film conveyed what was happening properly.
im a vegetarian but wasnt at all upset about the animals hunted ... its how one would have survived in the outback and the film left me wondering why the boy was so put off to extremes enough to die over when it was just the hunting of one wild boar ... its not like he would have never seen that before nor unlikely that he himself or his tribe have ever hunted boar before so whats the deal?
That aboriginal is David Gulpilil. He made several more films.
@@allirogorilla They were buffalo, and yes it does show them killing them without effort and just loading the carcasses onto a truck.
@@allirogorilla It did show them not taking a lot of the ones they shot. I also thought he cried afterwards because he felt that the animal was wasted, or else what would he cry about? Aboriginals have a huge sense of gratitude towards nature and never waste a life, they only kill out of necessity. They even give thanks for every animal. Hunting for sport is hugely against aboriginal values, ontop of that those white men's loud gun disturbed all the wildlife so that he couldn't even hunt either.
switch and bait
MY MAN CHRISTOPHER SUNDAY IN A MOVIE FROM THE SEVENTIEESSSSSSS SAY WHAT WORD TO YOUR MUTHDRA. CAN I GET A AMAEN .
Im looking for somewhere to discuss the beginning of this movie.
I watched tonite for the first time.
Can anyone explain the stupidity of the girl for walking inland, away from the obvious direction that they had driven there in the first place??
They could have followed the tracks of the car...until they got back to the road! wtf... instead she just goes and walks up a bloody mountain.
however great a movie it is supposed to be.. this ridiculous start just ruins it because no 14 could be that stupid..could they?
It's really about you, as you have awakened at some point in your life and realized the situation you have found yourself in. How do you manage, cope with the immediate situation, what is the scope of feasible ambition and hope? As you struggle to understand your situation, you are faced with choices that have little or no guarantee of a favorable improvement, yet you must make decisions because you have to leave the comfort of your immediate moment.
You may wish to return to the place you from which you came, but that was the moment that catapulted you to your present moment, and as is the case for all of us who cannot navigate back in time, you cannot find your way back to that specific place and time. The film takes us forward to a journey with little hope for a safe return to a place of comfort and joy. The characters' plight reflects their father's total lack of hope for a viable future, discovered only at the end of his own walkabout quest for meaning.
The film invites us to identify and think like the children, accepting the situations life presents without prejudice, hope, or any expectation at all. There is little use for a sense of self, of context, only accepting the situation and opportunities that fortuitously present themselves.
Well if she did that, the movie would be over pretty quick, wouldn't it. In extreme situations, not everyone has the presence of mind to do what might seem obvious to someone observing with the gift of hindsight also; as history will readily attest.
The point is the setup: the children are lost in the desert. The details establishing the setup are unimportant. What you do is like complaining that a set decoration on theatre stage is not 100% realistic.
baked*
so did the older boy kill himself or did someone kill him? i've never seen this movie, but i have an idea of what its about
It's not very clear but it does seem that he kills himself.
In the book he "wills" himself to death. There are some accounts of this happening among tribal aborigines. He scares her with his dancing which she finds really strange, but he thinks her fear is due to seeing "the spirit of death" in his eyes, so he gives up the will to live.
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“Civilised man” ooooooh that gringo narrator is racist
Wow, you’re shooting blanks at no target. First of all, the narrator could be Sidney Poitier, similar voice. And yes civilized, as opposed to the aborigines? Have you even seen this movie? Why fan the flame of racism when none exists here? It helps the opposition’s side. 😕
Gringo doesn’t even make sense in an Australian context . You’re basicslly engaging in reverse racism which makes it all the more
Ironic to get offended then become part of the problem. Smh.
lol funny editing. "Water?" -then down goes the club
That's not a club, it's what they drink from because there's still some water underground
agenttheater5 Gandalf says, "I have no memory of this place"
through the film is visually wonderful ... i must be missing something. (spoilers) why did the aborigine boy die at the end? what was his problem with the hunting of the animal when he himself survives by hunting. he surely had seen hunters before ... it would be unbelievable that he hadnt. so they used a gun to take down the animal. aborigines take down the same prey using spears so i dont see what the movie is trying to convey. it wasnt like it was a mass slaughter ... it was one animal shot shown over and over for some reason that haunted the boy into a frenzy in which i believe he was doing a protection ritual ... but why? what set him off to such extremes? i wanted to like this movie but the messase got lost on me at the end.
just looked up the producer was a jew hahaha
explains a lot and the shots of jennys arse
@@si4632 "and the shots of jennys arse" No, every inch of her actually. But you have to watch the film to understand why.
In the book the boy wills himself to death due to a cultural misunderstanding - he thinks she has rejected him because she has seen the spirit of death in his eyes. She has no idea about this tribal belief - she is just put off by his (to her) weird actions. The film is about cultural clash as well as unrequited yearnings.
@@si4632
Your jealousy don't make you attractive to the woman folk.
amazing film...but the director seemed a little perverted
Lol Australian movies are funny they look so quaint
Just about the most racist, condescending trailer ever :) the film is better than that
Real boars were killed in the making of this movie
There are quite a few of old aussie movies that have real animals killed. In 'wake in fright' theres a whole scene in which they kill a pack of kangaroos. Its brutal but its interesting to look back on
They are a serious problem in Australia. They are usually diseased and dangerous; a hazard to indigenous wildlife and humans.