Picnic at Hanging Rock [DVD video]

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish 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.

General Note:

From the novel by Joan Lindsay.

Originally released as a feature film in 1975.

Wide screen (1.78:1).

Special features: Disc 1: David Thomson introduction (new introduction by film scholar and author of the new biographical dictionary of film). Disc 2: Peter Weir (extended interview); Everything begins and ends (2003 documentary features interviews with producers Hal and Jim McElroy, executive producer Patricia Lovell, cinematographer Russell Boyd, and actors Helen Morse and Anne Louise Lambert); A recollection...Hanging Rock 1800 (1975 on-set documentary by executive producer Patricia Lovell features interviews with source novel author Joan Lindsay, director Peter Weir, and cast members Rachel Roberts and Dominic Guard); Homesdale (Peter Weir's 1971 award-winning black comedy); Trailer. Booklet features an essay by author Megan Abbott.

Performers:

Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne Lambert, Christine Schuler, Karen Robson, Margaret Nelson, Jane Vallis.

Technical Details:

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1, 16x9) presentation; 5.1 Surround sound.

Subject Term:

Boarding school students -- Australia -- Drama.

Boarding schools -- Australia -- Drama.

Kidnapping -- Australia -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.

Genre:

Film adaptations.