IMDb plot summary: During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Rachel Roberts, Helen Morse, Anne-Louise Lambert, and Margaret Nelson.
This is an Australian film about a girls' school that suffers an unexpected tragedy when three of its students and a teacher disappear during an outing. The film follows the various individuals affected by this event. The cinematography, costuming, and landscape all have an Impressionist painting feel to them, peaceful and stately and calm, and it is fascinating to see that facade break down as the mystery continues to go unsolved. There are pieces missing from the narrative throughout beyond the core question of "what happened to these girls?" but it works because this is a mood piece above all. Rachel Roberts turns in an especially wonderful performance as the headmistress determined to put her world back together again and furious that it can't be done. The movie moves very slowly, but the contrast between the idyllic and the ominous is so interesting to watch that I very rarely felt the film's length.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Picnic at Hanging Rock > Hans Christian Andersen
Picnic at Hanging Rock > Going My Way
Picnic at Hanging Rock < Soapdish
Picnic at Hanging Rock < The Skeleton Twins
Picnic at Hanging Rock < Misery
Picnic at Hanging Rock < The Peanuts Movie
Picnic at Hanging Rock < Kill Bill Vol. 2
Picnic at Hanging Rock < Jack Goes Boating
Picnic at Hanging Rock < Queen of Katwe
Picnic at Hanging Rock > Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary
Picnic at Hanging Rock > Brave
Picnic at Hanging Rock > Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Final spot: #793 out of 3195, or 75%.
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