Review of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) by Andrew D — 12 Nov 2014

A tribute to the beauty of Mother Australia and her daughters. There is lots of fetish here: shoe buckles, ribbons, a lacy camisole, corset strings, stockings. Seductive without being sexy... these items and the women wearing them are a beautiful contrast to the rough, stark beauty of the titular rock.

Young women, tied up by clothing and propriety - who doesn't love a girls' boarding school movie? - undress a bit and unleash cosmic and natural forces which cannot help but devour them whole.