Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- Starring:
- Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, (more)
- Director(s):
- Peter Weir
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
- Category:
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Foreign
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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 Lambert) decide to explore a nearby volcanic rock formation. It's a desolate, primitive, vaguely menacing place, where one can almost feel the presence of ancient pagan spirits. Something -- and there is an unspoken but palpable emphasis on the inherent carnality of the place -- draws four of the girls to explore the rock. Three never return. No one ever finds out why. The repercussions for the school are tragic, and of course Roberts reacts with near-crazed anger, but what really happened? Weir gives enough clues to suggest any number of explanations, both physical and supernatural. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 107 mins
Complete Cast of Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Rachel Roberts - Mrs. Appleyard
- Vivean Gray - Miss Greta McGraw
- Kirsty Child - Dora Lumley
- Christine Schuler - Edith Horton
- Janet Murray
- John Fegan
- Frank Gunnell - Edward Whitehead
- Barbara Lloyd - Pupil
- Kay Taylor - Mrs. Bumpher
- Garry McDonald - Constable Jones
- Jane Vallis - Marion
- Ingrid Mason - Rosamund
- John Jarratt - Albert Crundall
- Dominic Guard - Michael Fitzhubert
- Helen Morse - Diane de Poitiers
- Karen Robson - Irma
- Jenny Lovell
- Bridgette Phillips
- Peter Collingwood - Colonel Fitzhubert
- Anne-Louise Lambert - Miranda
- Margaret Nelson - Sara Wayboume
- Martin Vaughan - Ben Hussey
- Jacki Weaver - Minnie
- Wyn Roberts - Sgt. Bumpher
- Tony Llewellyn-Jones - Tom
- Olga Dickie - Mrs. Fitzhubert
- Director(s):
- Peter Weir
- Writer(s):
- Clifford Green
- Producer(s):
- Jim McElroy, Hal McElroy
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Not For Children, Adult Language, Adult Situations)
- Categories:
- Drama, Foreign, Mystery & Suspense
- 1976 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Cinematography
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