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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Why this pick
Its sunlit Australian landscape slowly becomes uncanny, pairing ritual, nature and unresolved mystery with the same dreamlike unease that makes The Last Wave so haunting.
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MOVIE1977 1h 46m AUS
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s: a rural school in the desert, the main street of an outback town, a traffic jam in the city, all being affected by unusually adverse weather conditions that suddenly appear. Only the local Aboriginal people seem to recognize the Cosmology significance of these weather phenomena.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Olivia Hamnett
Annie Burton
David Gulpilil
Chris Lee
Frederick Parslow
Rev. Burton
Richard Chamberlain
David Burton
Vivean Gray
Dr. Whitburn