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

    • Ben Hussey: Well Ma'am, the strength of it is this. Three of your young ladies and uh - Miss McCraw are missing - on the rock.

      Mrs. Appleyard: What happened?

      Ben Hussey: Well now, Mrs. Appleyard, that's just the trouble. Nobody knows what happened.

    • Sgt. Bumpher: Why didn't you tell us you followed the four girls.

      Michael Fitzhubert: Because... I didn't exactly follow them. I just jumped across the creek and walked towards the rock a little way. I was curious. In England young ladies like that wouldn't be allowed to go walking in the forest. Not alone anyway. They were gone by the time I got out of the creek, so I turned back.

    • Michael Fitzhubert: I wake up every night in a cold sweat just wondering if they're still alive.

      Albert Crundall: Yeah, well the way I look at it is this: if the bloody cop, and the bloody Abo tracker, and the bloody dog can't find them, well no one bloody can.