History Film / PicnicAtHangingRock

* NobleMaleRoguishMale: ShelteredAristocrat Michael and manly, HotBlooded Albert.

* DontGoInTheWoods: You may get sucked up by a creepy, mysterious rock formation.

%%* NeverFoundTheBody: The two girls and the teacher are never found.

%%* SameLanguageDub: All of Edith's dialogue was dubbed.

%%* ThousandYardStare: Michael is in shock when Albert finds him after he stayed overnight at the rock. Extremely unsettling.
%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: One theory regarding the reason some people disappeared and some didn't.
%%* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Poor, poor Irma.

--> '''Albert''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I say the crude things; you just think them.]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: The film opens with the schoolgirls exchanging passionate valentines.
** Sara has a very obvious crush on Miranda, but it doesn't appear to be returned (although Miranda feels genuinely sorry for her).
** Note that this isn't necessarily because Miranda's straight or doesn't care for Sara, it's at least partly because Miranda somehow knows she's going to disappear.

** And if you thought the story was a {{Mind Screw}} ''before''...

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Miranda and Mlle. de Poitiers.
* BeingWatched: By Hanging Rock itself.

* ConArtist: Mrs. Appleyard (explicitly so in the novel, hinted at in the film).

* TheDitz: Edith (not a very nice one, either).

* DontYouDarePityMe: Sara and Minnie.
* DownerEnding: Besides Miss [=McCraw=], Marion, and Miranda vanishing forever, there's more.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Sarah.]] And eventually [[spoiler: Miss Appleyard becomes an implied one.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: Miranda to Michael.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Miranda, in spades

* GeniusLoci: Hanging Rock. [[EpilepticTrees Maybe.]]

* IWillFindYou: Michael is obsessed with finding the girls, particularly Miranda

* LadyDrunk: Hinted with Mrs. Appleyard.
* LongLostSibling: [[spoiler: Sara and Albert.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Michael falls for Miranda immediately.

* MindScrewdriver: ''The Secret of Hanging Rock''.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome
* NervousWreck: Miss Lumley.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The two girls and the teacher are never found.

* NotSoStoic: Mrs. Appleyard sets an example of perfect self-control, until she doesn't.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler: Sara and Albert never learn of each other's presence.]]
* OneGenderSchool: It's a girls' school.

* TheOphelia: The disappeared girls have all shades of this but Miranda and Sara most of all.
* OrphansOrdeal: Sara.
* PrecisionFStrike: ''Albert''. And at least once Michael as well.

* SameLanguageDub: All of Edith's dialogue was dubbed.

* SirSwearsALot: Albert.

* TheStoic: Miss [=McCraw=].
* SuicideIsPainless: [[spoiler: Sara walks a fine line between this and DrivenToSuicide.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Ohhhh, Albert.
* ThousandYardStare: Michael is in shock when Albert finds him after he stayed overnight at the rock. Extremely unsettling.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: One theory regarding the reason some people disappeared and some didn't.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Poor, poor Irma.
* VillainousBreakdown: Keep your eye on Mrs. Appleyard's drinking habits, along with her hair.

* BloodlessCarnage: After a suicide by jumping off the roof and smashing through the greenhouse face and body appear intact...as far as we can tell.
** Partially inverted in that while [[spoiler:Sara's body]] looks undamaged, there is quite a bit of blood.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer; Miranda, in spades

* FreudianSlip: When Michael is questioned b the police about the girl he at first confirms having seen three girls and later he corrects himself saying that actually they were four. He has forgotten Edith, the plain one.

* ReCut: Weir's director's cut removes a few scenes. (Sadly, ''only'' the director's cut is available in America, one of the few times TheCriterionCollection has really dropped the ball. Many viewers find the original theatrical cut to be superior.)

* ThousandYardStare: Michael seems to be in shock when Albert finds him after he stayed overnight at the rock.

* IWillFindYou: Michael is obsessed with finding the girls.

* {{Jerkass}}: Mrs. Appleyard, who cares little for the children. Miss Lumley, who ''ties Sara against a wall'' to correct her posture (although on Mrs. Appleyard's orders, and she seems to feel bad about it).

* IWillFindYou: Michael wants to find Miranda.

* SiblingsYingYang: [[spoiler: Sarah is sensitive and cultured while Albert is hot blooded and barely manages to write. Justified because Sarah become the ward of a richman who paid for her education while Albert spent his childhood as a StreetUrchin until being old enough to get a job.]]

* SiblingYingYang: [[spoiler: Sarah is sensitive and cultured while Albert is hot blooded and barely manages to write. Justified because Sarah become the ward of a richman who paid for her education while Albert spent his childhood as a StreetUrchin until being old enough to get a job.]]

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Irma, who's also far the richest of her peers, is a Rothschild on her mother's side and described as a dark-haired beauty - in a school of blondes - with dark eyes and stereotipically black curly hair.

* LongLostSibling: Sara and Albert.

* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Michael and Albert.

* PrecisionFStrike: ''Albert''. And alt least once Michael as well.

* SecretRelationship: Minnie and Mr. Whitehead are carrying on an affair.

* DownerEnding: Besides Miss [=McGraw=], Marion, and Miranda vanishing forever, there's more.

* {{Jerkass}}: Mrs. Appleyard, who cares little for the children. Miss Lumley, who ''ties Sara against a wall'' to correct her posture.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: the film opens with the schoolgirls exchanging passionate valentines.

* AnimalMotifs: In Michael's dreams Miranda is represented by a swan. Insects also appear at several key points, from the ants devouring the leftover Valentine's cake to the praying mantis seen after [[spoiler: Sara's suicide]].
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: It's almost guaranteed that anytime the film/book is brought up/read/watched, someone's going to claim it actually happened.

%%* BoardingSchool
%%* BuryYourGays
%%* ClassTrip
* ClockKing: Mrs. Appleyard is associated with clocks and watches throughout.

%%* DontGoInTheWoods

* FatGirl: Edith
* FakeNationality: Helen Morse (English) as Mlle. de Poitiers (French).

* {{Jerkass}}: Mrs. Appleyard.
** The novel's Miss Lumley is none too pleasant either.

* KubrickStare: The film ends with arguably one of the most chilling stares in the history of cinema.

* LadyInRed: Irma after [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic being founded.]]

* LongLostSibling: [[spoiler: Sara and Albert]].

%%* NeverFoundTheBody

* NonSingingVoice: Or, in this case, non-speaking voice. ''All'' of Edith's dialogue was dubbed.

%%* OneGenderSchool

%%* SceneryPorn
* SecretRelationship: Minnie and Mr. Whitehead,

%%* SoleSurvivor

%%* WomensMysteries

Set in 1900 and based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, Australian director Peter Weir's 1975 film ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'' tells the story of an ill-fated outing undertaken by Australian schoolgirls enrolled at an exclusive finishing school. Students of Appleyard College are permitted to spend Valentine's Day at Hanging Rock, collecting information for an essay to be written upon their return. After being granted permission by their French mistress, Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith set off to explore the upper slopes of the rock. Wandering through the maze-like tunnels, Edith discovers that the others appear to have fallen into a trance; the trio have, as one, removed their shoes and stockings, and proceed to drift into another narrow passage. Fearful, Edith runs back to fetch help, Mathematics mistress Miss [=McCraw=] heading up to fetch them. However, teacher and students disappear without a trace.

Set in 1900 and based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'' tells the story of an ill-fated outing undertaken by Australian schoolgirls enrolled at an exclusive finishing school. Students of Appleyard College are permitted to spend Valentine's Day at Hanging Rock, collecting information for an essay to be written upon their return. After being granted permission by their French mistress, Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith set off to explore the upper slopes of the rock. Wandering through the maze-like tunnels, Edith discovers that the others appear to have fallen into a trance; the trio have, as one, removed their shoes and stockings, and proceed to drift into another narrow passage. Fearful, Edith runs back to fetch help, Mathematics mistress Miss [=McCraw=] heading up to fetch them. However, teacher and students disappear without a trace.

The film features visually hypnotic photography by Oscar winner Russel Boyd and a haunting score by Bruce Smeaton, and established Director Peter Weir as a major International talent.

* AnimalMotifs: In Michael's dreams Miranda is represented by a swan.

* BoardingSchool
* BuryYourGays
* ClassTrip

* DontGoInTheWoods

* NeverFoundTheBody

* OneGenderSchool

* SceneryPorn

* SoleSurvivor

* TheDitz: Edith (not a very nice one, either).
* TheStoic: Miss [=McCraw=].
* TheFilmOfTheBook

* WomanMysteries

* TheOphelia: The disapperead girls have all shades of this but Miranda and Sara most of all.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic

** The novel's Miss Lumley is none too pleasant either.