The incompatiability of the English sensibilities of early white Australians with the hot, dry Australian landscape and the wariness and suspicions harboured by Western invaders towards the bush are themes beautifully realised in Peter Weir's enigmatic film of the Joan Lindsay book which has a teacher and a group of schoolgirls like Botticellian angels quietly vanish without trace up Hanging Rock while on a school picnic.
★★★★☆
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