Film Forum

Edgar Award-winning novelist Megan Abbott (You Will Know Me, Dare Me, The Fever) will introduce this special screening of Picnic at Hanging Rock. The original novel by Joan Lindsay (written when she was nearly eighty) turns 50 this year, with a new anniversary edition from Penguin Classics.

Megan Abbott is the author of crime novels like Dare Me, The Fever, You Will Know Me, and the upcoming Give Me Your Hand. She has won the Edgar Award for outstanding fiction from the Mystery Writers of America and was named one of Time Magazine’s “23 Authors That We Admire” in 2011. She has taught at NYU, SUNY, and the New School, and served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.

DCP courtesy Janus Films. 

Reviews

“A film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria. It also employs two of the hallmarks of modern Australian films: beautiful cinematography and stories about the chasm between settlers from Europe and the mysteries of their ancient new home.”
– Roger Ebert

“Haunting… a subtle and indelible mystery. Decades after its release, the movie still chills.”
–  Monica Castillo, The New York Times

“Among other things it knows that there are some romantic longings, especially in the young, that are so overwhelming they simply cannot be contained. The result is a movie that is both spooky and sexy.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times

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