Word: walkabouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lost Souls. This imaginary fraudulent creature has animated a great deal of escape fiction, from Robinson Crusoe to Little Big Man. Taken lightly, he is an object of literary curiosity. Written about seriously, he is preposterous. Walkabout makes the disastrous mistake of treating an aborigine...
Meantime, a bushman (an authentic one named David Gumpilil) fearlessly traverses the country-the sky his ceiling, the air his blanket-boomeranging lizards and kangaroos in order to eat. Stumbling upon the lost souls, this natural man guides them through his Eden. Walkabout suddenly becomes a lyric travelogue, assaulting the harsh Flinders mountain ranges, trailing the little camels of the red desert near Alice Springs, mooning under the blooming quandong tree. Director Nicolas Roeg, who made his reputation as a cinematographer (Fahrenheit 451, Far from the Madding Crowd. Petulia), shows a precise and delicate Down Understanding. But give him anything...