Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Call Number: DVD Drama Picnic
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975.
Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay.
Special features: Extended interview with Weir; New piece on the making of the film; New introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of the new biographical dictionary of film; A recollection ... ; Homesdale (1971) an award-w inning black comedy by Weir; A booklet featuring an essay by author; new paperback edition of the novel.
Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne Lambert.
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish 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.
DVD, widescreen (1.78:1, 16x9) presentation; 5.1 Surround sound, Region 1.
Contents: Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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A scary mystery, set out with so much style it's hard to tell what's what any more. submitted by lisa on July 30, 2019, 11:08am Such evocative atmospherics, with the acting and the costumes and the pace and the editing, on top of the extraordinary setting! The mores of the era are challenged in something as simple as hairbrushing rituals. It's like some kind of visual poem. Somehow, some women are breaking free, and it's all scary but beatiful. What the heck is going on, anyway??

Spooky but not sure why submitted by barbfoster on August 30, 2019, 7:38pm I saw this movie first back in college (~1980) and was very spooked by the atmosphere of it, jumping at shadows afterwards. It didn't seem all that spooky on seeing it again, but still have to wonder, what happened to those girls?