Film Screening: Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)

Peter Weir's mesmerizing adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name portrays a schoolgirls' outing, saturated in a hazy innocence, in early twentieth-century Victoria, Australia. When some of the girls inexplicably vanish, Weir punctures the dreamy idyll with anxieties about class, race, sexual repression, and the unforgiving landscape of a country struggling with national identity and the abuses and limits of its colonial legacy. Considered a landmark of twentieth-century filmmaking, Picnic at Hanging Rock is screened in conjunction with the exhibition Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography, on view at Art on Hulfish. Introduced by Laura Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings. . . . . This screening is free and open to the public. Reserve your ticket on the Princeton Garden Theatre's website. https://www.princetongardentheatre.org/films/picnic-at-hanging-rock . . . . Directed by Peter Weir. Run time: 115 minutes. Rated PG. --- Event Details: https://my.princeton.edu/rsvp?id=1946967