Picnic At Hanging Rock

“What we see and what we seem are but a dream — a dream within a dream.”

Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) is a hypnotic tale of disappearance, desire, and the unknowable. Set in the sun-drenched countryside of 1900s Australia, this haunting film follows a group of schoolgirls and their chaperone who vanish without a trace during a St. Valentine’s Day outing.

Less a conventional mystery than a fever dream of class, repression, and repressed longing, Picnic at Hanging Rock helped define the Australian New Wave — and still unsettles audiences nearly 50 years later.

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