This year marks the 50th anniversary of what might be the greatest Australian film of all time – Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Full of tantalising mystery and suggestions of dark, cosmic horror, what is the allure of this oblique dream of femininity and disappearance?
We also discuss the novel and the stage adaptation.
Also includes discussions of Dead Calm (1989) and Se7en (1995).
Episode 87: Picnic at Hanging Rock