Picnic at Hanging Rock

Set in Victoria, Australia, in 1900, the film is about a group of female boarding students who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine’s Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community. This parable of imperial anxiety and sexual hysteria is a classic of Australian new wave cinema, and in my view a haunting and rather special film.

Dir: Peter Weir: Australia 1975 (107 mins)

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