A | 1h 55min | Drama, Mystery | Australia
Director: Peter Weir
Writers: Joan Lindsay (novel), Cliff Green (screenplay)
Stars: Rachel
Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray
During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a
teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence
frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery
film directed by Peter Weir, and starring Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen
Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver. It was adapted by Cliff Green from the
1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, who was deliberately ambiguous
about whether the events had really taken place; however, the story is entirely
fictitious.
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.
Unsettling.
