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Walkabout
Nic Roeg's films have always been disorienting expeditions through strange unconscious landscapes, but his launch, released a year after he co-directed Performance with Donald Cammell, is a literal odyssey auspices of the Australian Outback - a barren emptiness invested with hallucinatory intensity by Roeg's mythic storytelling and frightful Poetic camerawork. It's dispassionate to dream up a more consequential starting point for the career of British cinema's most mercurial, elusive vice-president - a filmmaker for whom conventional realism has frequently been an obstacle to surmount in the search for psychic reality. Adapted by playwright Edward Bond ('Lear', and a contributor to Blow Up) from the lyrical novel close James Vance Marshall, two nameless, middl...
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