11 August 2010

Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)

9.5/10
Wow, this was so good. It left me with the same enraptured feeling (both while watching it and long afterwards) as two of my other favorite movies: Aguirre The Wrath of God and Stalker. The cinematography in this movie is so good I thought my heart was going to explode, and I'm a sucker for a good coming-of-age tale, as I've said before here. Basically this movie had everything I love in a movie. I'm being a dick by docking it 0.5 points since I thought the end was a liiiittle shaky but it's pretty damn close to a 10. If anyone can recommend something in line with this and the two other movies I mentioned (slow-paced, beautifully photographed "journey" films, in broadest terms), I'm all ears.

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