Talk:Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)

An all-white vision?
As far as I recall, there are no Native Australians in the entire film, although their relics seem to be part of the mystic backgroun Is this correct? And would this be realistic for the place and time?

--GwydionM 17:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You would not expect to have found Aboriginals in the type of country being portrayed then or now. To an extent this was the result of disposession (surviving Aboriginals were concentrated in missions and reserves), but population densities were probably never high in the countryside portrayed.--Grahamec 02:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * there's a native australian tracker among the search party, wearing a bright red coat--Mongreilf (talk) 15:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

A source for further details about this film
This interview:
 * Transcript of an April 2006 interview on Talking Heads

with producer Patricia Lovell talks about the film. For example: Yeah, and I was suggesting to the viewers that this would make a marvellous film. And then I started to think about it and then, because of Peter, I thought, "This is very Weir." So, I did actually say to him, you know, I took it around and said, "Pete, would you please read this?" And he was so busy working on Cars That Ate Paris I think he left it for about three to four months. And then suddenly he rang me, screaming on the phone, "I've got to do this. What do we do? What do we do next?" I said, "Right, I will fly us economy to Melbourne and we will stay with friends overnight and we're going to try and meet Joan Lindsay and we will also go to the rock." So, we did this el cheapo thing, I'm very ashamed of it now. It wasn't what big Hollywood producers would do.

I used that interview to flesh out Lovell's bio a bit and thought it could be useful here too &mdash; 67.101.6.238 03:13, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

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Requested move

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The result of the move request was: pages moved per unopposed request. GTBacchus(talk) 21:13, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (film) → Picnic at Hanging Rock — Relisted. --RegentsPark (talk) 20:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I believe the film is considerably better known than the original novel. (It's also considerably better.) PatGallacher (talk) 18:46, 8 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Picnic at Hanging Rock → Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)
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Move request, again
can the above be reverted? as a TV Series is also being made [2] Dave Rave (talk) 08:53, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Proposed merge with The Secret of Hanging Rock
Describe errata tied to Picnic at Hanging Rock, likely not enough significant coverage to be useful as independent article Sadads (talk) 01:59, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

This is Molyvos 1. It's pretty clear to me that this article should be merged with the main Picnic at Hanging Rock entry. This is about the final chapter - how is that not part of the main story?


 * I agree with this. --Drown Soda (talk) 01:25, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 02:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

"Doina Lui Petru Unc"
This source gives "Doina Lui Petru Unc" as the main theme, as does this source. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:26, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Lesbian theme
Can I add the category "lesbian related-films" to the article? I understand that this is not so much a romantic, how much a metaphorical film and that the homosexuality shown in the film is situational, but why not? At one time, the director even noted that the lesbian subtext was the first thing he was asked about after the premiere. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:04, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Henri Cartier-Bresson
There seem to be plenty of sources to support direct influence e.g. here, here and here? Martinevans123 (talk) 14:08, 26 January 2020 (UTC)