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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Country: Australia, Language: English, 115 mins

  • Director: Peter Weir
  • Writer: Joan Lindsay; Cliff Green
  • Producer: A. John Graves; Patricia Lovell

CGiii Comment

Skillful and subtle.

The quintessential girls school film - the epitome of restrain and unease.

The incongruous pan pipes is a masterstroke...listen to them disappear.

Haunting and beautiful.

Weir has a very impressive portfolio - he is an impressive director.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, not the answering of them.

Cast & Characters

Rachel Roberts as Mrs. Appleyard;
Vivean Gray as Miss McCraw;
Helen Morse as Mlle. de Poitiers;
Kirsty Child as Miss Lumley;
Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Tom;
Jacki Weaver as Minnie;
Frank Gunnell as Mr. Whitehead;
Anne-Louise Lambert as Miranda;
Karen Robson as Irma;
Jane Vallis as Marion;
Christine Schuler as Edith;
Margaret Nelson as Sara;
Ingrid Mason as Rosamund;
Jenny Lovell as Blanche;
Janet Murray as Juliana