Review of Walkabout (1971) by Eduardo C — 15 Sep 2013

A film I found strange, but repeat viewings helped me fall in love with it. A seemingly normal middle-aged English man takes his kids by car to the middle of the Australian outback desert, and for no reason, tries haphazardly to kill them, fails to do so, and ends up destroying the car and committing suicide.

Then they wander the desert for days, nearly die, and are saved by an aborigine teenager who is experiencing his own Walkabout adventure. The Walkabout is when he has to live on his own for months to prove his skills and manhood before returning to his people.

What happens next I cannot say but it gets better !