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New 4K RestorationPicnic at Hanging Rock
Directed by Peter Weir
Friday, April 4, 6 pm
Saturday, April 5, 3 pm
$12 | $8 Speed members
“The film’s mystery still shimmers.”—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing.
Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day. 1975, Australia, 4K DCP, 107 minutes. Rated PG
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Speed Art Museum, 2035 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY 40208-1812, United States,Louisville, Kentucky
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