1975 · drama · mystery
Picnic at Hanging Rock (re-pass)
Directed by Peter Weir1h 47m1975
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.
Our read: Picnic at Hanging Rock (re-pass) (1975) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
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