Picnic at Hanging Rock

Film - 1975

8,3

91.1K

Picnic at Hanging Rock it's a movie with Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Vivean Gray Full cast. Directed by Peter Weir. Original title Picnic at Hanging Rock, runtime 110 minutes. Genres Thriller, Drama, Mystery.

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Deep impressionistic lyricism of

Ruben Maria Soriquez

A film I am particularly fond of. I watched it countless times throughout my twenties, often in the company (several times, of members of the band I was in). A source of inspiration, it nourished the post-adolescent fascination that mystery had on me. I haven't seen the 1998 version (the original one is from 1975) re-edited by director Peter Weir, who cut 7 minutes to streamline the final progression. What can I say about this film...fascinating! And then, as already said, mysterious, enchanting....A film full of sensual tension (the young and talented Rachel Roberts is beautiful) which, contained by Victorian moral codes, increases its disruptive potential. A kinetic potential sublimated by the still innocent teenage girls of the boarding school and conveyed in the curious search for the thrill of the unknown. When mystery takes over the narrative, the film becomes a hymn to the inexplicable and the disruptive forces of nature (not those impacting hurricanes and tsunamis, so to speak, but the more subtle, subdued and creeping ones). A film to be watched several times to savor all the details and to try to resolve and decipher, we spectators, the inexplicable. From a technical point of view, this film makes excellent use of music, never too present, but which becomes the protagonist when it has to enhance the key scenes. The plot is well thought out, without any flaws and supports a profound impressionistic lyricism, visually perfect. The slowness is intentional and is instrumental to the beautiful atmospheres that this film can give us. Read all

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In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.