Picnic at Hanging Rock Comments

  • Libby 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    Based on Joan Leslie's novel of the same name, the film won the 1977 BAFTA Award for Best...

  • Marquis 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    Beauty is more than evil. Like a huge oil painting slowly unfolding. The answer is no answer. Maybe it has to be, to be...

  • Freida 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    The girl's feelings are like poetry. The danger when you are young is that you don't know the danger, you can walk in at any time, and you can disappear at any...

  • Kasey 2022-03-24 09:02:51

    【YVR-que】Mysticism under classical beauty. As the movie puts it bluntly, some questions have answers and some questions don't, and how do we deal with mysteries that have no answers? What are the swans and other animals that appear from time to time? The urge for sexual enlightenment? The pursuit of primitive beauty? Different from the film that emphasizes the story after the director, such as the Dead Poets Society, this film emphasizes the atmosphere: the scene of flying birds and the paused...

  • Zion 2022-03-24 09:02:51

    【YVR-que】Mysticism under classical beauty. As the movie puts it bluntly, some questions have answers and some questions don't, and how do we deal with mysteries that have no answers? What are the swans and other animals that appear from time to time? The urge for sexual enlightenment? The pursuit of primitive beauty? Different from the film that emphasizes the story after the director, such as the Dead Poets Society, this film emphasizes the atmosphere: the scene of flying birds and the paused...

  • Juana 2022-03-23 09:02:40

    A very successful novel adaptation What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream. Beautiful girl mysterious...

  • Nella 2022-03-23 09:02:40

    The elegant and mysterious atmosphere is carried through the whole film, and the close up of Victoria's costumes and cliff stones shows a sense of depression and unease--metaphor montage (the heroine looks back and the birds in the sky - an accident), fade-in fade-out (The disappearance of each person on the cliff fades in and out - a sense of mysterious ritual), contrast montage (after the disappearance of a girl who was found and returned to the dance studio of the school, other students...

  • Toy 2022-03-23 09:02:40

    Women's Film Festival - Watching on the big screen, it always feels similar to that under the peony flowers, but the more intense is the intensified atmosphere of paradox, the mystery of the cliff and the strong soundtrack intensify the girl's inner desire to find out, the sky of overlapping shadows, that flying far away Birds seem to be the illusions of the girls, a symbol of freedom. Here, the sense of self and existence is extending and dying, so what happened later became a kind of fear....

  • Sammy 2022-03-23 09:02:40

    Women's Film Festival - Watching on the big screen, it always feels similar to that under the peony flowers, but the more intense is the intensified atmosphere of paradox, the mystery of the cliff and the strong soundtrack intensify the girl's inner desire to find out, the sky of overlapping shadows, that flying far away Birds seem to be the illusions of the girls, a symbol of freedom. Here, the sense of self and existence is extending and dying, so what happened later became a kind of fear....

  • Humberto 2022-03-23 09:02:40

    It seems that most of the Australian New Wave films will have an elegant and inland rough and rugged impact. The use of montages, filters, and some quick editing methods are similar to French Impressionist methods, coupled with the use of stream of consciousness and confusing narratives. The sad tone "Inland Horror" and "Little Brother's Travels in the Wasteland" have many similarities in nature with this...

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  • Eryn 2022-01-09 08:01:33

    Why is "Picnic on the Cliff" terrifying (feminist perspective)?

    Obviously, the director of "Picnic on the Cliff" had the impulse to lead the audience to ask "Where are the disappearing girls and female teachers?", and obviously he did this: the movie ended, the big mystery was not solved, so Audiences like me have been asking "So how did they disappear?"...

  • Ona 2022-03-23 09:02:40

    Australia lost its days of innocence

    Peter Weir also made such a suspenseful film. Not bad.
    This reminds me of the Wikipedia explanation of the term "Australia lost its innocence days", which is also a mystery, but not as bizarre or as artistic as the movie describes it. Did Will refer to this case back then?
    As for the descriptions...

Picnic at Hanging Rock quotes

  • Mlle. de Poitiers: [to Mrs. Appleyard] Madam, something terrible has happened.

  • Mrs. Appleyard: [to Miss Lumley] This tragedy is little more than a week old and already three, three mark you, sets of parents have written advising me that their daughters will not be here next term. Now the newspapers have something further to sensationalise about. Newspapers all over the world have headlined our morbid affair Miss Lumley. I mean, you realise that I suppose.