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PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1
Mon, Jul 21 7:30 PM
Reel 1970s
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Monday, July 21st at 7:30
PM
Hosted by film historian Glenn Andreiev
$16 Public | $10 Members
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 twentieth 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. (Australia,
1975, 107 mins, PG, English | Dir. Peter Weir)


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