Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Directed by

Peter Weir

Genre

drama film, mystery film, coming-of-age film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 891 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

On Valentine's Day in 1900, several schoolgirls and their teacher disappear while on a picnic at Hanging Rock in Victoria. The puzzling event unsettles the local community.

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What happens

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Cliff Green, based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay. The film stars Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver. The plot involves the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community. Picnic at Hanging Rock was a commercial and critical success, and helped draw international attention to the then-emerging Australian New Wave of cinema. It is widely regarded as one of the most iconic and defining films of the New Wave. In 1996 it was voted the best Australian movie of all time in a poll by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the NFSA. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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