Roeg Gone Rogue: Walkabout (1971)

"A perfect cinematic experience...A meditation on modern rituals and ancient ones, conflicts between the native Aboriginal and invasive European cultures, human language and storytelling, female and male gender roles and the misunderstanding between them, the cruelty of nature and the madness of the modern world." - Paste. The second film for our "Roeg Gone Rogue" weekend, celebrating the life of the director who passed away this November. Siblings from Sydney find themselves lost in the Outback when their father takes them into the wilderness to take his own life and theirs, but a young indigenous man on walkabout befriends them...