Picnic

Keith Garlington

The sheer mystery of the disappearance and the search for answers is fundamental, but Weir makes the emotional aftermath just as compelling. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

Peter Weirs Picnic at Hanging Rock has something of the same sense of mystery and buried terror as Antonionis LAvventura another film about a sudden and disquieting disappearance.But its more lush and seductive than Antonionis spare black and white images: Weir films an Australian landscape that could be prehistoric, that suggests that men have not come this way before and that, quite possibly, they should not have come this time. ( Read More )

Brian Costello

While not for everyone especially less mature viewers and viewers hoping for a simple whodunit mystery where everythings tied up in a nice bow at the end, Picnic at Hanging Rock is an enchanting, enigmatic film experience like no other. ( Read More )

Marjorie Baumgarten

Peter Weir (The Truman Show) made this unsettling, atmospheric film early in his career, and it is still one of his most successful projects to date. ( Read More )

The result is little more than a discreetly artistic horror film. ( Read More )