CRITERION COLLECTION: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1975
• Genre: Drama; Mystery
• Plot: 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 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.
• Cast: Rachel Roberts; Vivean Gray; Helen Morse; Kirsty Child; Tony Llewellyn-Jones; Jacki Weaver; Frank Gunnell; Anne-Louise Lambert; Karen Robson; Jane Vallis; Christine Schuler; Margaret Nelson; Ingrid Mason; Jenny Lovell; Janet Murray; Vivienne Graves; Angela Bencini; Melinda Cardwell; Annabel Powrie; Amanda White; Lindy O'Connell; Verity Smith; Deborah Mullins; Sue Jamieson; Bernadette Bencini; Barbara Lloyd; Wyn Roberts; Kay Taylor; Garry McDonald; Martin Vaughan; John Fegan; Peter Collingwood; Olga Dickie; Dominic Guard; John Jarratt; Faith Kleinig; Peter Weir; Cliff Green; Joan Lindsay; Hal McElroy; Jim McElroy; Russell Boyd; Max Lemon; Bruce Smeaton; Gheorghe Zamfir; David Copping
• Director: Peter Weir
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: Greater Union Organisation (GUO), McElroy & McElroy, The Australian Film Commission, B.E.F. Film Distributors Pty Ltd., Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie