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Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock ... Some were never to return.
A sun-drenched afternoon. A school outing. A mystery that remains unsolved.
Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock is a haunting, hypnotic classic that helped define the Australian New Wave of cinema. Set in 1900, the film follows a group of schoolgirls and their teacher who vanish without a trace during a Valentine’s Day picnic at the enigmatic Hanging Rock. As the search for answers unravels, the film builds an eerie atmosphere of dreamlike dread, leaving audiences entranced by its lingering mysteries.
Lauded for its poetic cinematography and unsettling ambiguity, Picnic at Hanging Rock was a critical and commercial success, gaining international recognition and becoming one of Australia’s most iconic films. In 1996, it was voted the best Australian film of all time by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the NFSA. Roger Ebert called it “a film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria,” while Vulture hailed it as “a masterpiece of atmosphere and unease.”
Step into the mystery for one night only at The Nick as part of our ReelTalk: Classics series—where cinema’s greatest enigmas come to life.
1975. 115 min.