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Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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NR,1hr 55min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
February 2, 1975
Director:
Peter Weir
Distributor:
South Australian Film
Starring:
Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Vivean Gray  ...more
Synopsis: Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the uptight headmistress (Rachel Roberts) takes them on a Valentine's Day picnic into the countryside, and several of the girls, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
The first significant splash made by the Australian New Wave on world cinema, Picnic at Hanging Rock is director Peter Weir's haunting, delicate, and exquisitely photographed tale of three young girls who disappear during a school outing in the year 1900. It hints at what is to come in films like Weir's truly shattering The Last Wave and in coming-of-age films such as Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant ... Full Review
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Rachel Roberts
Mrs. Appleyard
Dominic Guard
Michael Fitzhubert
Vivean Gray
Miss Greta McGraw
Helen Morse
Diane de Poitiers
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