PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Special Features: 50th Anniversary | New 4K Restoration
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is set at the turn of the 20th century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR Peter Weir; SCR Cliff Green, from the novel by Joan Lindsay; PROD Hal McElroy, Jim McElroy. Australia, 1975, color, 107 min. RATED PG
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
Genre: Mystery drama