Picnic at Hanging Rock

This Valentine's Day, ACMI are screening Peter Weir's remarkable Australian mystery, Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Set a stifling summer’s day in 1900, a party of boarders at the exclusive Appleyard College and their chaperones, mathematics mistress Miss McCraw and the graceful Mademoiselle de Poitiers, travel to the magnificent ancient rock formation at Mt Macedon. When Miss McCraw and three of the senior girls – Irma, Marion and the ethereal Miranda – vanish during the course of the afternoon, their disappearance sets off a chain of disquieting and tragic events.

See why this film has stayed with people for decades as you try to decode what really happened to those girls.