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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) / Peter Weir

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Claudia2 years ago

Beautiful film 🧡

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Super Normaled2 years ago

I always saw this as a form of ghost story.

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Emily Levine2 years ago

One of my all-time favorite films. “Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place.”

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Heinrich R2 years ago

@DannyDrinksWine 🎥💪😍

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Claudia Zago2 years ago

Beautiful film !

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crotchman. mood: GOTO WORLD CHAMP 20252 years ago

Just had my mind destroyed by the ending of this film. Peter Weir is one of the all-timers.

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Peter Weir explains the techniques he employed to make "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975) feel unique & disassociated from time & place: "Interviewer: I’ve been surprised to hear of classes of schoolgirls today dressing up and going on Picnic at Hanging Rock picnics: I had the feeling that the film’s point of view was that of an outside observer—almost a voyeur—looking at schoolgirls, rather than coming in any way out of a schoolgirl’s sense of herself. Weir: Films viewed at different times and different places can seem very different—shorter, longer, better, worse, didn’t ever know it was so funny. This film is obviously viewed very differently now from then, and by schoolgirls with a different view from others. It is a simple and emotive series of images that obviously are still going to touch some people, perhaps young schoolgirls in particular. It is often hard to remember what you intended at the time—the more powerful and ingrained memory is the difficulty you face with each project. With much of Picnic at Hanging Rock it was clearly dangerous ground I was treading on, given the audience’s preconditioning, with a mystery that had no solution. I had to supply an ambience so powerful that it would turn the audience’s attention from following the steps of the police investigation into another kind of film. I began some technical experiments (which I continued in 'The Last Wave' (1977)) with camera speeds for example. So within a dialogue scene I would shoot the character talking in the normal twenty-four frames a second, then I would shoot the character listening in forty-eight frames, or thirty-two frames. I would ask the character listening not to blink or make any extreme movement so that you didn’t pick up the slow motion, then I’d intercut those reactions and you would get a stillness in the face of the listener. These things were not discernible to the eye, but you would get this feeling, as you sat in your theatre seat, that you were watching something very different. With the soundtrack I used white noise, or sounds that were inaudible to the human ear, but were constantly here on the track. I’ve used earthquakes quite a lot, for example, slowed down or sometimes mixed with something else. I’ve had comments from people on both 'Picnic' and 'Last Wave' saying that there were odd moments during the film when they felt a strange disassociation from time and place. Those technical tricks contributed to that." (Peter Weir's interview with Susan Mathews, 1985)

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