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  Review by rudi ✨ ★★★★½ 10

  this film is Sofia Coppola and David Lynch’s love child I don’t know how they did it but somehow they went back in time to make it happen

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  Review by kailey ★★★½ 21

  and they wonder why they climbed hanging rock without corsets.

  it's hard to pick out the scene of an essentially inscrutable film but one thing that's stuck with me is the brief introduction of the fitzhuberts, a wealthy couple with a rather sallow nephew. we're introduced to them sitting at the bottom of hanging rock, their parasols and lacy tables meant to protect them from mother nature. their valet points out that they always eat lunch too early. it's not like they have anything else to do.

  wealthy women and rich boys wander through hanging rock and seem to accept that it will open for them, because their money has paved the way for so much else of their life.…

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  Review by vee ★★★★ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  THESE THREE LADIES STRAIGHT UP DIED FOR THE AESTHETIC

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  Review by aliyah ★★★★½ 6

  i’m scared that if i start going into a lesbian analysis of this film i’ll never be able to stop

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★½ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The best film ever made about alien abduction that never mentions the words "alien" or "abduction." All the signs are there: stopped watches, missing time, strange geological formations, horny teenage girls.

  A very haunted sexuality pervades every frame of this film. The Earth itself seems suffused with a buzzing fornication that hums just beneath the incredibly repressed Victorian surface. There's even a doctor whose sole medical qualification is making sure every girl that goes missing for more than an hour is "still intact" when they return.

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  Review by Jim Cummings 8

  first time watch for me.
  horror doesn't always have to be normal.
  I found this film incredibly unnerving, it almost feels like I went to that rock and I'm missing, hoping someone will try to find ME.
  Weird in a haunting way.

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  Review by Lizzy ★★★ 3

  if i were to have a picnic at hanging rock, i would simply not disappear

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  Review by Shane McAvoy ★★★★★ 4

  There’s an ominous slow push-in on a koala that suggests the koala may have been responsible for the disappearance of the three girls.

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  Review by DirkH ★★ 16

  Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock is a mystical and beautiful film that I failed to connect to completely.

  Set in Australia in 1900 and centred around a real life mysterious disappearance of three girls and one teacher, it explores the nature of said disappearance and the effect it had on the school and the community.

  The first act had me glued to the screen. The attention given to creating a convincing depiction of the time period is something I always respect and admire. When the group of young women arrive at the rock for the picnic, Weir manages to create a sense of unease and mystery that transfixes and intrigues. He almost makes the rock a character, a mystical force…

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  Review by laird ★★★★★ 5

  Life Itself

  I got Twin Peaks vibes from this with the moody, mysterious, inscrutable forces surrounding women in trouble, the men obsessed with them, and some dialog that could be from either work: "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream" (which I looked up and it's a line from a Poe poem, apparently) and most notably a line that could be from The Return, "Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place."

  Though where Twin Peaks is a story of trauma reverberating through a community (and possibly time and space), Picnic seems to be more concerned with repression and the impending trauma that comes with loss of innocence (or in this…

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  Review by lauren ★★★ 2

  why didn't they just pull out their iphones and open up find my friends

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  52/100

  Enigmatic to a fault. I'm (still) okay with the disappearance remaining unexplained, and was ready (again) to roll with the entire film as a vague metaphor for sexual awakening, what with Hanging Rock's many phallic peaks and vaginal crevices. But there are too many really specific unanswered questions that diffuse the mystery rather than deepen it. Why include the elderly teacher along with the three young girls? What's with the repeated suggestion (beginning before they even set out for the picnic) that Miranda knows something is about to happen? How do Sara's predicament and its sad resolution correlate with her having been forced to remain behind at the school? And why bother having one of the girls found alive…