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Picnic at Hanging Rock
One Valentine's Day, a girls boarding school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. During the picnic, a few students and a teacher vanish without a trace and their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
25 May 1947, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1952, New Guinea
5 August 1951, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
30 October 1948, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
August 30, 2010
A poetic and enigmatic drama that's a classic of Australian cinema.
January 01, 2000
A film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria.
January 15, 2005
The story provides Mr. Weir with material for a kind of Australian horror-romance that recalls Nathaniel Hawthorne's preoccupation with the spiritual and moral heritage of his own New England landscape.
May 11, 2012
Eerie, haunting film hints at violence and sexuality.
June 23, 2014
Picnic At Hanging Rock is determined to keep its secrets to itself. Yet it's as beguiling as films come.
July 21, 2014
an evocative, impressionistic masterwork
August 30, 2010
This horrific tale is told with marvelous shadowy indirection and delicate lyricism.
June 20, 2014
A beautiful, mysterious movie.
June 24, 2006
The result is little more than a discreetly artistic horror film.
January 01, 2000
One of the most hauntingly beautiful mysteries ever created on film.
August 30, 2010
Spottily effective.
September 05, 2014
Gorgeously shot and carefully paced, Weir's Hanging Rock has a dreamlike quality that sets it apart even among his fellow Australian New Wavers.

