Picnic At Hanging Rock (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

Directed by Peter Weir

Starring: Anne Louise Lambert, Karen Robson, Jane Vallis, Christine Schuler, Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Vivean Gray, Kirsty Child, Margaret Nelson
Contributors: Cliff Green, Hal McElroy, Jim McElroy, Bruce Smeaton, Russell Boyd
Studio: Second Sight
Genre: Drama
Main Language: English
Region: Region B
Release Date: 1 May 2023
Originally Issued: 1975
No of Discs: 2
BBFC Cert: (PG) Parental Guidance.
Run Time: 102 minutes

Description

Peter Weir directs this Australian mystery drama based on the novel by Joan Lindsay. On Valentine's Day in 1900, a group of students and teachers from a private girls' school leave for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of the girls decide to explore the rocks and an unseen force sends everyone present to sleep.

When they wake, three students and one teacher have disappeared. One girl is later found unconscious but alive, but the others are never seen again. As people search for the missing and for answers, parents begin to withdraw their children from the school and further tragedies follow.

Special Features

• Interactive Menus
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Outtakes
• Interviews: Karen Robson (actor); Russell Boyd (cinematographer); John Seale (camera operator); Joan Lindsay (author)
• Commentary: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (film academics)
• Other Documentary: 'Something Beyond Explanation: Thomas Caldwell on 'Picnic at Hanging Rock''; 'A Dream Within a Dream'; 'Recollection: Hanging Rock 1900'