От издателя Situated somewhere between supernatural horror and lush Victorian melodrama, director Peter Weir's lyrical, enigmatic masterpiece is an imaginative tease The setting is a proper turn-of-the centuаоцфпry Australian boarding school for girls, a suffocating institution built on strict moral codes, repressed sexuality, and a subtle but enforced class structure As the film opens, girls draped in immaculate white dress prepare for a picnic at the nearby volcanic formatiбаузлon, Hanging Rock, and Weir hangs an air of dark foreboding over the proceeding "You'll have to love someone else, because I won't be here very long," says one virginal girl, Miranda, to her friend Her words are prophetic: during the picnic, Miranda, along with two other girls and an uptight schoolmistress, vanish into the rocks While a search party repeatedly returns to the rock to look for either the girls or the reasons for their disappearance, Weir leaves the mystery uбндншnsolved Like Antonioni's L'Avventura, the vanishing is open to numerous interpretations-both rational and illusory--but Weir drops enough allegorical clues that it feels like a parable He transforms the landscape and weather into menacing and eerie images; outlines of faces can be seen in the rocks, while the oppressive heat beating down on the picnic doubles as an atmospheric metaphor for the girls' unbearable social and sexual confinement These images and other plot twists toward the end hint that this mysterious vanishing, on some level, was actually a form of spiritual escape--the only out, other than death, from the film's bleak, tightly structured community Regardless of how you see it, though, this hypnotic puzzle remains the highlight of the '70s Australian New Wave The DVD version presents the film in letterbox form * * * * * Фильм Питера Уира Премии Американской академии фантастических и фильмов-ужасов и Британской киноакадемии за лучшую операторскую работубсхяф Ученицы женского колледжа отправляются на пикник к Висячей скале в День Святого Валентина Несколько из них исчезают бесследно… Режиссер: Питер Уир Продюсеры: Хэл Макэлрой Джим Макэлрой Творческий коллектив Дополнительные материалы Theatrical trailer(s) Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 51 Liner notes by Vincent Canby Режиссер Питер Уир Peter Weir Питер Уир родился 21 августа 1944 года в Сиднее, Австралия Он изучал юриспруденцию в Университете Сиднея, где и начал писать для студенческих спектаклей Уир бросил учебу в девятнадцать лет, чтобы войти в семейный бизнес Спустя полтора года он Актеры (показать всех актеров) Рэйчел Робертс Rachel Roberts Вивьен Грей Vivean Gray Энн-Луиз Ламберт Anne-Louise Lambert Anne Lambert .