Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring AnneLouise Lambert, Helen Morse, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray and Dominic Guard. The film was adapted by Cliff Green from the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay.

At Appleyard College, a girls private school, near the town of Woodend, Victoria, Australia, the students are dressing on the morning of St. Valentines Day, 1900. Miranda AnneLouise Lambert, Irma Karen Robson, Marion Jane Vallis, Rosamund Ingrid Mason, waifish Sara Margaret Nelson, and outsider Edith Christine Schuler read poetry and Valentines Day cards.The group prepares for a picnic to a local geological formation known as Hanging Rock, accompanied by the mathematics mistress Miss Greta McCraw Vivean Gray and the young and beautiful Mlle. de Poitiers Helen Morse. On the authority of the stern headmistress Mrs. Appleyard Rachel Roberts, jittery teacher Miss Lumley Kirsty Child advises Sara that she is not allowed to attend. ........

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