Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

  • Director: Peter Weir
  • Writer: Joan Lindsay,Cliff Green
  • Countries of origin: Australia
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: February 2, 1979
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Picknick am Valentinstag
  • "Picnic at Hanging Rock" is an Australian drama film released in 1975, directed by Peter Weir and starring Gary Macdonald and others.
    On Valentine's Day in 1900, a women's college in Australia organized a picnic. The location was chosen under a cliff called Hanging Rock, and the story unfolded.

    Details

    • Release date February 2, 1979
    • Filming locations Mount Diogenes, Hanging Rock Reserve, Woodend, Victoria, Australia
    • Production companies British Empire Films Australia, The South Australian Film Corporation, The Australian Film Commission

    Box office

    Budget

    A$440,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $49,582

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $27,492

    Gross worldwide

    $82,361

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jerald 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      "People need to have a visceral reaction to what they see in the film"

      Die of laughter, this is an art film, and there are people who reason seriously. This story is based on real events. You are so good, why don't you become a detective!

      I read the comments and said the level of photography of the film, please, this was shot in 1975!

      Stop ranting. . .

      Personally, I feel that first of all, this film focuses on the concept of "beauty", not only the beauty of the picture, but has been emphasizing the beauty of Miranda. From the teacher thinking...

    • By Herta 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      never to be seen again

      Did the girls disappear into another timeline? Did the two teenage boys who were still on the hanging rock rape them that day? Are they just caught in a crevice? What about the girl who was discovered a week later? She had lost her shoes, but her feet were not harmed by the sharp rocky paths. Is she floating in the sky? There's even a book, Murder by Hanging Rocks, explaining that the disappearance is fictional, but still offers some theories, including the UFO abduction, and what...

    • By Dennis 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      Botticelli's Angel of Spring does not belong to this world

      Everything you see, or seem to see, is but a dream, a dream within a dream.
      The girls took off their gloves, rode in the carriage, and roared away under the envious gaze of everyone.
      It has stood for a million years just waiting for us.
      Haien Cliff, from a distance, is a sturdy and sturdy shore. When Miranda pushed open the wooden door in the mountain, the horses were startled, the birds chirped, dizzy and restless, like a natural cheer, indicating the impending plunder.
      The...

    • By Ona 2022-03-23 09:02:40

      Australia lost its days of innocence

      Peter Weir also made such a suspenseful film. Not bad.
      This reminds me of the Wikipedia explanation of the term "Australia lost its innocence days", which is also a mystery, but not as bizarre or as artistic as the movie describes it. Did Will refer to this case back then?
      As for the descriptions of sexual repression written by film critics, I don't think they should pay attention to them. Film is a manifestation of art, just like painting; some are realistic, so everyone can...

    • By Oma 2022-03-23 09:02:40

      What we want to talk about is: "beauty is there".

      A rare contemplative film. Released in 1975. Suffice it to say: So slow, what on earth is it thinking?

      If the film is obscure, the reason is not that it is obscure in its expression, but that what it talks about is obscure.

      What we are talking about here is not essentially a certain kind of "beauty" - not some kind of concrete meaning or meaning of beauty (for example, it is not expressing some kind of "courage, integrity, kindness, purity, justice, struggle, etc." Such a...

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    • By Treva 2023-09-27 05:01:26

      The films of the 1970s were as beautiful as an oil painting and as slow as a poem. The characters in the film are all like a myth, in the most chaotic dream before waking up, and Miranda is more like a symbol of the sum total of these yearnings. Although I have seen half of the director's hints about the shackles of reality, I also understand that this is a fable that will not be explained. But after the film is over, I can't help but wonder where she is. After all, she is so...

    • By Kole 2023-08-20 16:14:53

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    • By Garret 2023-06-28 20:36:43

      The meaning of the drunkard is not in the wine, it is like a dream, like a bubble. Nothing is more poetic than the demise of...

    • By Rey 2023-05-10 06:09:18

      The overall atmosphere is quite beautiful, I really didn't understand the storytelling, or the director didn't want to give you a clear...

    • By Danielle 2023-04-07 22:34:23

      Why is there no ending, nothing, it's so uncomfortable... I like that era, women were elegant, men were...

    Background creation

    The film is based on the 1967 novel by Joan Leslie. Although the novel is fictional, the novel implies that the event itself may be real. This film with many features of drama, mystery, horror, nightmare and dream is not to explore what happened, but what might happen.
    What happened on that Saturday in 1900? Did those girls enter another time and space? Were they raped by two teenage boys who were also wandering near Diaoshipo that day?...
    more about Picnic at Hanging Rock Background creation

    Movie quotes

    • Albert Crundall: I thought the little fat one was gonna take a bath. Some of them are real lookers! Have a look at the shape of the dark one with the curls. Built like an hourglass. And have a guard the last one, the blonde. Oh, she'd have a decent pair of legs- all the way up to her bum.

      Michael Fitzhubert: I'd rather you didn't say crude things like that, Albert.

      Albert Crundall: I say the crude things; you just think them.

    • Edith: Except for those people down there, we might be the only living creatures in the whole world.

    • Miss McCraw: The mountain comes to Muhammad, and Hanging Rock comes to Mr. Hussey.