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Genres:
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Drama /
Horror /
Mystery /
Music
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Director:
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Peter Weir
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Actors:
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Rachel Roberts,
Jacki Weaver,
Vivean Gray,
Tony Llewellyn-Jones,
Helen Morse,
Kirsty Child,
Frank Gunnell,
Anne-Louise Lambert,
Karen Robson,
Jane Vallis
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Duration:
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115 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)94
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Plot Summary:
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Situated somewhere between supernatural abhorrence and ripe Victorian melodrama, director Peter Weir's lyrical, enigmatic magnum opus is an fictional goad. The backdrop is a established turn-of-the century Australian boarding opinion notwithstanding girls, a suffocating institute built on strict moral codes, repressed sexuality, and a clever but enforced class design. As the overlay opens, girls draped in unadulterated white array prepare representing a picnic at the neighbourhood volcanic organizing, Hanging Rock, and Weir hangs an air of glowering foreboding at an end the accomplishment a ... transactions. "You'll accept to love someone else, because I won't be here altogether long," says one virginal girl, Miranda, to her friend. Her words are sibylline: during the picnic, Miranda, along with two other girls and an uptight schoolmistress, vanish into the rocks. While a search participator over returns to the indigent to look for either the girls or the reasons as a remedy for their disappearance, Weir leaves the secrecy unsolved. Antonioni's L'Avventura, the vanishing is air to numerous interpretations--both sensible and deceptive--but Weir drops enough allegorical clues that it feels a parable. He transforms the aspect and ride out into perilous and uncanny images; outlines of faces can be seen in the rocks, while the oppressive passion beating down on the torture doubles as an atmospheric metaphor for the girls' too much societal and sexual confinement. These images and other draw twists toward the end hint that this occult vanishing, on some constant, was actually a manufacture of spiritual cut out--the purely absent from, other than death, from the film's cheerless, vigorously structured community. Regardless of how you see it, though, this hypnotic ponder over remains the highlight of the '70s Australian Unheard of Breaker. --Dave McCoy
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
"...[It] wears the brilliant obscurity of a Dickinson rime and the suggestive force of a Magritte painting....[Offers] just the incomparable beauty of its puzzle..." -- Rating: A
Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St Valentine's Date in 1900 a outfit of schoolgirls enjoys a epoch at Hanging Rock, a adjoining beauty spot. But something odd is at work: clocks stop at midday and three girls vanish. Dingo dogs, extraterrestrials, kidnappers or what? In this subconscious take on the mystery, principal Peter Weir leaves clues hanging in the arrogance like a glistening spider's web, hears godly choirs and thrumming insects — he hasn't the foggiest, but he adores double entendre, mysticism and trope. It's a uncommonly sexy fancy, which stares an poser regular in the eye and, in the proceeding, proved to the world that the new Australian cinema was expert of making films other than those that featured gnarled and drunken sheep-shearers. There are superior performances from Rach...
Picnic at Hanging Rock
A film that ventures successfully into the mystic and bravely offers no answer to its central puzzle, well-deserved a question that continues to haunt the mind. Whether you hanker after to attention it as a parable of progenitive awakening or of colonial subjugation, it successful
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