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Picnic at Hanging Rock

6.8

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV Miniseries)

Original title: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Year: 1975
Running time: 110 min.
Country: Australia
Director: Peter Weir
Screenwriter: Cliff Green. Novel: Joan Lindsay
Music: Bruce Smeaton
Cinematography: Russell Boyd
Cast: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver, Frank Gunnell, Anne-Louise Lambert, Karen Robson, Jane Vallis, Christine Schuler, Margaret Nelson, Ingrid Mason, Jenny Lovell, Janet Murray
Producer: The Australian Film Commission, Picnic Productions
Genre: Mystery. Drama | Based On A True Story. Kidnapping Film / Disappearance. 1900s. Teen/coming-of-age. Schools & University. Cult Movie
Synopsis: When a group of schoolgirls from an elite Victorian finishing school embark on a Valentines day excursion to an unusual outcropping of volcanic rock, four members of the party are drawn towards the summit, where they experience powerful forces of time, nature, and eroticism, and vanish into thin air. This meticulously crafted Australian film displays a remarkable sense of eerie foreboding and lush surrealist sensibility, which have earned it a rabid cult following.

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#17 Best Australian Movies of all time

Awards: 1976: BAFTA Awards: Best Cinematography. Nominated for Costume Design and Soundtrack

Critics' reviews

"Visually it probably is one of the most beautiful pix ever seen, with Aussie flora and fauna and wonderful blue skies."

Variety
"Though, 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' has immense feeling for an interest in the Australian landscape, it is anything but a picturesque or provincial film (...) The result is a movie that is both spooky and sexy."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"A movie that creates a specific place in your mind; free of plot, lacking any final explanation, it exists as an experience (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Spottily effective mood piece from Australia (...) Peter Weir struggles to create an atmosphere of mystical languor (...) The deenergized drama leads only to anticlimax"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
"The power of nature is quiet but all-consuming in Peter Weir’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Chris Cabin: Slant
"This horrific tale is told with marvelous shadowy indirection and delicate lyricism."

Richard Schickel: Time
"[Peter Weir] made this unsettling, atmospheric film early in his career, and it is still one of his most successful projects to date."

Marjorie Baumgarten: Austin Chronicle
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