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BFI FILM CLASSICS: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

ANNA BACKMAN ROGERS BFI/BLOOMSBURY

Why does Peter’s alluring push-pull of ambiguity/suggestion, showing how it encourages keen viewers to question the film’s mediated images of femininity. Between the surfaces and secrets, she finds something subversive: a story about the horror of living under an imposed narrative.

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