Picnic at hanging rock [videorecording] / a Janus Films release ; Picnic Productions ; produced by Hal & Jim McElroy ; directed by Peter Weir ; screenplay by Cliff Green ; filmed with the South Australian Film Corporation and B.E.F. Distributors.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: PIC100 | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Classic collection (Criterion Collection (Firm)) | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 29.Publication details: [S.l.] : The Criterion Collection, c1998.Edition: Widescreen; director's cutDescription: 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0780021134
- 9780780021136
- Title on container: Peter Weir's Picnic at hanging rock [videorecording]
- Director of photography, Russell Boyd; edited by Max Lemon; Flüte de Pan played by Gheorghe Zamfir ; additional original music composed by Bruce Smeaton.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the uptight headmistress (Rachel Roberts) takes them on a Valentine's Day picnic into the countryside, and several of the girls, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert) decide to explore a nearby volcanic rock formation. It's a desolate, primitive, vaguely menacing place, where one can almost feel the presence of ancient pagan spirits. Something -- and there is an unspoken but palpable emphasis on the inherent carnality of the place -- draws four of the girls to explore the rock. Three never return. No one ever finds out why. The repercussions for the school are tragic, and of course Roberts reacts with near-crazed anger, but what really happened? Weir gives enough clues to suggest any number of explanations, both physical and supernatural. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay.
Special feature: original theatrical trailer.
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1975.
Director of photography, Russell Boyd; edited by Max Lemon; Flüte de Pan played by Gheorghe Zamfir ; additional original music composed by Bruce Smeaton.
Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver.
On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.