Nicolas Roeg’s first feature follows a brother and sister stranded in the Australian desert who must learn to survive after encountering a young Aboriginal man on a walkabout. A major work of 1970s British and Australian cinema, the film contrasts Western and Aboriginal worldviews while offering a striking visual meditation on landscape, survival and dislocation. Roeg’s elliptical editing and luminous cinematography make the narrative an atmospheric, sometimes haunting study of cultural encounter and loss.
In English with French subtitles.
