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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Why this pick
Like Walkabout, it turns the Australian landscape into an uncanny, sensual force, observing young people with elliptical storytelling and a haunting sense of cultural dislocation.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1971 1h 35m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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The Last Wave
Why this pick
Its dreamlike Australian imagery, fractured perception and growing awareness of an older world beneath modern life echo Walkabout’s unsettling collision of cultures and environments.
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Badlands
Why this pick
Malick’s luminous images, sparse dialogue and childlike-yet-disturbing point of view make this an equally poetic road into violence, innocence and estrangement.
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The New World
Why this pick
A visually immersive encounter between cultures, told through nature, gesture and shifting subjective impressions rather than conventional plot mechanics.
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Why this pick
Its elemental wilderness and hypnotic, hallucinatory momentum offer a harsher adult counterpart to Walkabout’s sense of humans becoming lost within an indifferent landscape.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In November, a white, city-bred teenaged schoolgirl and her much-younger brother become stranded in the wilderness after their father goes berserk. After driving them far into the Australian outback, ostensibly for a picnic, the father suddenly begins shooting at the children. They run behind rocks for cover, whereupon he sets the car on fire and suicide. The girl conceals what has happened from her brother and, after grabbing some food and supplies, the pair head out into the desert.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jenny Agutter
Girl
David Gulpilil
Black Boy
John Meillon
Man
Barry Donnelly
Australian Scientist
Noeline Brown
German Scientist