Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975 1 hr 55 min
PG
This FREE screening of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is screened in conjunction with the Princeton University Art Museum's exhibition, Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography, on view at Art on Hulfish. The film will be introduced by Laura Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings.
Peter Weir’s haunting yet poetic horror film is a defining entry in Australian cinema. Based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay and set at the turn of the 20th century, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK tells the story of a small group of female students who vanish while on a school outing. Weir’s film punctures the dreamy idyll with anxieties about class, race, sexual repression, and the unforgiving landscape of a country struggling with national identity and the abuses and limits of its colonial legacy. FREE Event.
Credits
Director Peter Weir
Cast Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert
Country Australia
Language
Aspect 1.66
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