"Picnic at Hanging Rock".
Director: Peter Weir
Australia 1975
Cycle: Tuesday Cinema Phase
screening of the film in 4K on the 50th anniversary of its release

The year 1900: On St Valentine's Day, a group of schoolgirls from an elite Victorian boarding school take a teacher-led trip to Hanging Rock, a volcanic formation in the heart of the Australian bush. There, under a heat-streaked sky, something unexplained happens - time blurs, space becomes curved and nature begins to affect the bodies and minds of the young women. Is this an ancient ritual? A collective hallucination? Or is it, as Edgar Allan Poe wrote: "What we see, and what we seem to see, is the dream we dream in another dream"? One thing is certain - nothing will be the same from now on.

It is one of the most mysterious and sensual images in the history of cinema. A work that once seen - especially on the big screen - stays in the memory forever.