SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“A film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria.”
107 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Peter Weir. In English. DCP.
Screening as part of “Fall of ‘75,” a celebration of some of the greatest films from one of cinema’s greatest years.
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all- female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS in this series:
Mirror: Saturday, October 4 at 3 p.m.
Mirror: Sunday, October 5 at 12 p.m.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom: Saturday, November 1 at 3 p.m.
Nashville: Saturday, November 15 at 3 p.m.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Saturday, November 29 at 3 p.m.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Sunday, November 30 at 12 p.m.
Manila in the Claws of Light: Saturday, December 6 at 3 p.m.
India Song: Saturday, December 13 at 3 p.m.