Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Walkabout Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 828-273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com
Walkabout
Movie Information
In Brief: Prior to Walkabout (1971), Nicolas Roeg had co-directed (with Donald Cammell) only one film, the astonishing Performance, so a good deal was riding on the cinematographer-turned-filmmaker’s second outing. Could Roeg pull off a solo film? Indeed, he could. In so doing, he established himself as a filmmaker with a unique, if not always completely penetrable, vision. Nowhere is this more evident than in Walkabout, where we’re given a story predicated on a father taking his children (Jenny Agutter and Luc Roeg) on a wilderness picnic — where he proceeds to try to shoot them before setting his car on fire and committing suicide. There are intimations from the onset that things are not as they should be, but that’s all — and the setup seems mostly designed to get us to the basic story of the children wandering through the Australian outback in the most disturbing manner possible.
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Nicolas Roeg |
| Starring: | Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra |
| Rated: | PG |
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