PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Mon, Jul 21 7:30 PM

Description

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)