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BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

tooelemountains ... in real life one of the most fascinating enigmas that so many people wonder about down to this day. The story has been told before in book and film, all of which were of great interest to me. The story of Hanging Rock picknic was done superbly by Peter Weir in 1975. And there was a captivating movie several years before that. In this version everyone is a little or a lot creepy and somewhat degenerate. I do believe it is a really obscene attack upon the characters of the real people who actually lived out this fascinatingly dramatic incident. Over on Amazon Prime, Amazon has cut off all reviews because they were so bad and Amazon became suspicious there was some campaign against this series. But there wasn't, it's just that this series really is that awful.Unfortunately the people who actually lived out the real incident so long ago are not around to complain that the producers of this series wanted to make it sensational. They went too far, too dark, and way too sick. Instead of attracting interest by sensationalizing the story, they bore viewers with constant, mind numbing, and relentless perversity.

Woodyanders 1990. Several students from an all-female college inexplicably vanish into thin air while spending a St. Valentine's Day outing in the Australian wilderness.Director Peter Weir ably crafts a hypnotically dreamy atmosphere that's in equal degrees ethereal, enigmatic, and sinister, vividly captures the suffocating repressiveness of the early 20th century Victorian era, lets the compelling story unfold at a leisurely pace, and makes excellent and evocative use of the titular ugly and uninviting main location. Cliff Green's oblique, yet still intriguing script offers plenty of pungent criticism of the stifling zeitgeist of the Victorian period and the deep-seated need to escape from sexual and social repression into a better more permissive world.Moreover, it's superbly acted by a top-rate cast, with especially stand-out contributions from Rachel Roberts as stern headmistress Mrs. Appleseed, Anne-Louise Lambert as the sensual and entrancing Miranda, Karen Robson as the perky and fetching Irma, Jane Vallis as the nerdy Marion, Dominic Guard as the smitten Michael Fitzhubert, Christine Schuler as annoying whiny frump Edith, Kirsty Child as compassionate teacher Miss Lumley, and Margaret Nelson as rebellious troublemaker Sara. Russell Boyd's sumptuous cinematography delivers a wealth of stunning and beautiful visuals. Best of all, Weir's admirable refusal to provide some kind of explanation for the disappearances gives this film its own singularly arresting cinematic allure.

JLRMovieReviews St. Valentine's Day 1900. An all girls' school. Based on true facts, this film concerns a group of girls who are treated on a day off from studies to a picnic at Hanging Rock for culture and leisure. A female teacher and male custodian of the school are chaperones. But what begins as carefree frivolity quickly becomes disturbing. The group comes back with less in the party, because some of them went missing and couldn't be found due to a trek up the rock. Repurcussions of this are far reaching for the school and the school mistress, played to perfection by Rachel Roberts. This is the plot but it is far from the whole spectacle of this, the mystic of this doomed trip. Peter Weir, who also directed "Dead Poets Society" and "Gallipoli," creates a world of young, pure girls whose imaginations and hearts are full of expectations of the wild, tomorrow, boys and each other. They are ready for life and love, eager for discovery of new things. Even Ms. McCraw falls into the spell of the Hanging Rock. This is obviously a very sensual film, with the girls fresh and ripe as they are blossoming into womanhood - but enough of the allegorical euphemisms. Because there was very little known about the case and very little discovered as to what really happened, there are no answers given in this film. What Weir does do is capture the enigmatic character of the rock, atmosphere, the whole incident. What makes it even more tragic is the sadness of the girl, Sara, who is so connected to Miranda, one of the doomed girls, and how Sara talks of her childhood, the orphanage, and her brother, of whom she misses and of whom we see throughout the film. Rachel Roberts gives a chilling performance as the school mistress and how, as she loses her control of her life, she loses all her grip of her senses. If you like period pieces, I think I will you find this thought- provoking and entertaining, despite its very dramatic ending with no solid answers to anything. An uneasy and beautiful movie experience makes "Picnic at Hanging Rock" a movie essential.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Peter Weir's mystery drama Picnic At Hanging Rock is the very definition of haunting. It has an intangible, dreamlike atmosphere that is at once beautiful and eerie. Nothing quite like it has crossed my cinematic vision up until this point, and can't believe it took me this long to check it out. The setting s 1900, Australia, a land still very much wild and untamed, although partway colonized by the British. In the hypnotizing opening scene, several angelic young girls in a remote boarding school cast longing, lingering looks out the windows at the horizon, and lyrically recite verses of poetry in the early morning air. They are a naive young bunch, because of the times, and their age. They embark with some of their teachers for a picnic at a local landmark, a labyrinthine plateau called Hanging Rock. Four of the girls become curious in the warmth of the afternoon sun and venture into the maze of stone formations high up on the hill. Three of them are never seen again. The fourth is traumatized by a terror she can remember nothing of. It's a mystery that crawls up your spine and grips you with a need to know, yet left unrequited and empty as the unforgiving outback. Cinematographer Russell Boyd paints gauzy pictures worthy of renaissance art, and navigates the spooky rock formation until we think we see things, feel things, and are within the grasp of answers that the film remains obstinate in giving. He even laid bridal lace over the lens in some scenes to enhance the ethereal tone. A huge part of what makes the film work is the knockout pan flute score by Zhamfir that piles on the atmosphere. A classic of true originality and daring exploration.