On Valentine’s Day, 1900, students from a private girl’s school vanish into the Australian bush during a picnic outing, leaving their classmates, neighbors, and teachers to make sense of their disappearance. A landmark in the Australian New Wave, Peter Weir’s masterful take on sexual repression, feminine beauty, schoolgirl crushes, and the power (and horror) of the natural world has influenced everyone from Sofia Coppola to Alexander McQueen and has the power to turn even casual moviegoers into instant cinephiles. Lyrical, unsettling, and strikingly beautiful, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is presented here in a new 50th anniversary 4K restoration.
“One of the most hauntingly beautiful mysteries ever created on film.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“Has something of the same sense of mystery and buried terror as Antonioni’s L’Avventura.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times