Episode 181 – Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock

In this episode, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee discuss Peter Weir's 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock.

This time on the podcast, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee discuss Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) – The Criterion Collection
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) – IMDb
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Trevor’s review of Picnic at Hanging Rock

Episode Credits

Trevor Berrett (Twitter/Website)
David Blakeslee (Twitter/Website)

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