Picnic at Hanging Rock [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Picnic at Hanging Rock [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Peter Weir Cast: Rachel Roberts
Rachel Roberts
, Dominic Guard
Dominic Guard
, Helen Morse
Helen Morse
, Jacki Weaver
Jacki Weaver
Peter Weir
Picnic at Hanging Rock [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Picnic at Hanging Rock [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Peter Weir Cast: Rachel Roberts
Rachel Roberts
, Dominic Guard
Dominic Guard
, Helen Morse
Helen Morse
, Jacki Weaver
Jacki Weaver
Peter Weir

Blu-ray (Wide Screen / Color)

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Overview

Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the uptight headmistress (Rachel Roberts) takes them on a Valentine's Day picnic into the countryside, and several of the girls, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert) decide to explore a nearby volcanic rock formation. It's a desolate, primitive, vaguely menacing place, where one can almost feel the presence of ancient pagan spirits. Something -- and there is an unspoken but palpable emphasis on the inherent carnality of the place -- draws four of the girls to explore the rock. Three never return. No one ever finds out why. The repercussions for the school are tragic, and of course Roberts reacts with near-crazed anger, but what really happened? Weir gives enough clues to suggest any number of explanations, both physical and supernatural.

Product Details

Release Date: 04/02/2019
UPC: 0715515225618
Original Release: 1975
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 1:47:00
Sales rank: 3,841

Special Features

Remastered, high-definition digital film transfer, supervised by Director Peter Weir, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; Extended interview with Weir; Program on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2003 with Executive Producer Patricia Loveli, Producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members ; Introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictonary of Film; A Recollection . . . Hanging Rock 1900 (1975), an on-set documentary hosted by Lovell and featuring interviews with Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and source novel author Joan Lindsay; Homesdale (1971), an award-winning black comedy by Weir; Trailer; Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Haltof's 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Rachel Roberts Mrs. Appleyard,Sgt. Bumpher
Dominic Guard Michael Fitzhubert
Helen Morse Mlle. de Poitiers
Jacki Weaver Minnie
Vivean Gray Miss Greta McGraw
Kirsty Child Dora Lumley
Anne Louise Lambert Miranda,Actor
Karen Robson Irma
Jane Vallis Marion
Christine Schuler Edith Horton
Margaret Nelson Sara
John Jarratt Albert Chauffeur
Ingrid Mason Rosamund
Martin Vaughan Ben Hussey
Jack Fegan Doc McKenzie,Actor
Garry McDonald Jim Jones
Frank Gunnell Edward Whitehead
Tony-Llewelyn Jones Tom
Kay Taylor Mrs. Bumpher
Jenny Lovell Blanche
Janet Murray Juliana
Bridgette Phillips Actor
Tony Llewellyn-Jones Tom,Actor
Barbara Lloyd Pupil
Peter Collingwood Colonel Fitzhubert
Olga Dickie Mrs. Fitzhubert
Bruce Smeaton Composer

Technical Credits
Peter Weir Director
Jim McElroy Producer,Producer,Producer
John Graves Executive Producer
Patricia Lovell Executive Producer
Joan Lindsay Screenwriter
Cliff Green Screenwriter,Screenwriter
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