Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Collectors Edition
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Special Edition

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Peter Weir

Written By:
Joan Lindsay
Cliff Green

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

Synopsis:

Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the uptight headmistress (Rachel Roberts) takes them on a Valentine's Day picnic into the countryside, and several of the girls, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert) decide to explore a nearby volcanic rock formation. It's a desolate, primitive, vaguely menacing place, where one can almost feel the presence of ancient pagan spirits. Something -- and there is an unspoken but palpable emphasis on the inherent carnality of the place -- draws four of the girls to explore the rock. Three never return. No one ever finds out why. The repercussions for the school are tragic, and of course Roberts reacts with near-crazed anger, but what really happened? Weir gives enough clues to suggest any number of explanations, both physical and supernatural.

On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from the Appleyard College took a trip to Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. Some of the girls were never seen again. The film that established Peter Weir as a major filmmaker is a critically acclaimed classic of Australian cinema. With BAFTA-winning photography and a memorably haunting score, Picnic At Hanging Rock remains one of the most chillingly atmospheric and beautifully enigmatic films ever made.

When a group of schoolgirls from an elite Victorian finishing school embark on a Valentine's day excursion to an unusual outcropping of volcanic rock, four members of the party are drawn towards the summit, where they experience powerful forces of time, nature, and eroticism, and vanish into thin air. This meticulously crafted Australian film displays a remarkable sense of eerie foreboding and lush surrealist sensibility, which have earned it a rabid cult following.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 06 October, 2022.