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Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975, Movie, 1h 47min

This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.

Based on a book by Joan Lindsay

Country: Australia

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Reviews

Critic Ian Nathan

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A fascinating film that is by turns fascinating and mysterious.

Read full review at Empire

Kasper Løvborg

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Unique arthouse-mystery with stunning visuals and an effectful mood of foreboding.

4 years ago

Critic Chris Cabin

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Peter Weir’s ethereal portrait of young lives on a precipice.

Read full review at Slant Magazine

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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Australian fever dream still dazzling 50 years on.

Read full review at The Guardian

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On a fateful Valentine's Day in 1900 Australia, three students and a teacher vanish without a trace during a school picnic at Hanging Rock, a mystical volcanic formation. As the remaining students return home in a state of confusion and panic spreads through the town, a young man becomes obsessed with cracking open the mystery, leading him on a dangerous and surreal journey.

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