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One Valentine's Day, a girls boarding school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. During the picnic, a few students and a teacher vanish without a trace and their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
1952, New Guinea
24 January 1947, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England, UK
18 June 1956, London, England, UK
1907, Ireland
20 September 1927, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
1920, Kent, England, UK
1949, Australia
5 June 1931, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
3 October 1956, Australia
28 August 1900, India
5 August 1951, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
19 March 1957, Malacca, Malaysia
30 October 1948, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
September 05, 2014
Gorgeously shot and carefully paced, Weir's Hanging Rock has a dreamlike quality that sets it apart even among his fellow Australian New Wavers.June 24, 2006
The result is little more than a discreetly artistic horror film.January 15, 2005
The story provides Mr. Weir with material for a kind of Australian horror-romance that recalls Nathaniel Hawthorne's preoccupation with the spiritual and moral heritage of his own New England landscape.August 30, 2010
Spottily effective.January 01, 2000
One of the most hauntingly beautiful mysteries ever created on film.June 20, 2014
A beautiful, mysterious movie.May 11, 2012
Eerie, haunting film hints at violence and sexuality.June 23, 2014
Picnic At Hanging Rock is determined to keep its secrets to itself. Yet it's as beguiling as films come.July 21, 2014
an evocative, impressionistic masterworkAugust 30, 2010
A poetic and enigmatic drama that's a classic of Australian cinema.August 30, 2010
This horrific tale is told with marvelous shadowy indirection and delicate lyricism.January 01, 2000
A film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria.