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