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PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

Peter Weir

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The 1900s: During a school picnic, a teacher and three girls, ignoring instructions, decide to explore the strange Hanging Rock. They are overwhelmed by a sense of freedom and their own sensuality, which contrasts sharply with the Victorian codes imposed by their school. They vanish without a trace.

Poetic thriller? A mystic trip? Picnic at Hanging Rock is a perplexing masterpiece that eschews classification.  

Australia – 1975 – 1hr47 – in English subtitled in French – All audiences

Director: Peter Weir  

Actors: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray