The Mysterious Girls of<em> Picnic at Hanging Rock</em>
A new Amazon miniseries adapts the classic novel by Joan Lindsay about the disappearance of four women in 1900 Australia.
For his 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Australian director Peter Weir wanted an Impressionistic look and feel, a gauzy, painterly aesthetic. He and his cinematographer, Russell Boyd, finally landed on a solution: They bought a variety of wedding veils from a bridal store, using the different fabrics and textures to create scenes in which the characters seemed to glow from within.
The detail is almost too perfect. is a film that studies girlhood from a distance, gazing at the young female students at Mrs. Appleyard’s remote Australian boarding school, and rendering their luminous beauty like
