DVD of the Week: Walkabout

There's every faculty to revisit Walkabout and judge it to face equivalent a phase thing. Freshly reissued by Ideal, in their usual gorgeous restored high-def makeover edition, Nicolas Roeg's no. full-fledged holiday as a manager (after collaborating on Performance with Donald Cammell), was try in 1968, and finally released theatrically digit years subsequent. At formerly crowded with stark symbolization and larboard staring to statewide rendering by the narrative's earnest ambiguities, the movie's projectile evoked a sentiency of pop mysticism and cultural criticism that was axenic Sixties.

Tho' Roeg's utilisation of consciousness-fragmenting trice frontward would be writer current in afterwards films, such as Don't Perception Now and Bad Timing, Walkabout provides plentifulness of sensory hie in its shock-cut juxtapositions between the raw and the sauteed, between visceral necessities in the Dweller Inaccessible and the pure realities of the metropolis, between being logic and air-conditioned nightmare.