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The Beguiled
Why this pick
Its isolated girls’ school, mannered historical world, and steadily tightening unease echo the unsettling contrast between decorum and buried desire in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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MOVIE1975 1h 57m AUS
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Its patient, dreamlike imagery and child’s-eye sense of mystery create the same uncanny feeling that the natural world holds meanings adults cannot reach.
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This sun-bleached rural nightmare shares Hanging Rock’s beautiful surfaces and ominous ambiguity, filtering adult secrets through a heightened, mythic vision of childhood.
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For the same hypnotic, carefully composed atmosphere: ornate femininity, erotic unease, and an unreal sense of time create a poised, sinister reverie.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
At Appleyard College, a girls' private school, near the town of Woodend, Victoria, Australia, the students are dressing on the morning of Valentine's Day, 1900. Miranda (Anne-Louise Lambert), Irma (Karen Robson), Marion (Jane Vallis), Rosamund (Ingrid Mason), waifish Sara (Margaret Nelson), and outsider Edith (Christine Schuler) read poetry and Valentine's Day cards.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rachel Roberts
Mrs. Appleyard
Helen Morse
Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers
Kirsty Child
Miss Dora Lumley
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Tom
Margaret Nelson
Sara Waybourne
Jenny Lovell
Blanche Gifford
Peter Collingwood
Col. Fitzhubert
John Jarratt
Albert Crundall