Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
"Picnic At Hanging Rock" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 09/01/2017
On Valentine's day 1900, an Australian boarding school for girls organised a field trip to nearby Hanging Rock, but three of the girls and their governess failed to return. Peter Weir's atmospheric tale is based upon a true life mystery that to this day has never been solved; this gives plenty of scope for attractive imagery and period detail which sets the scene beautifully for an enigmatic and evocative story with a historical bent. However, because it is based upon reality and the script refuses to even speculate as to a possible culprit or the fate of the victims there is little meat to the mystery element. Very nice to look at certainly, and it does have a wonderfully otherworldly and ethereal quality but some may find this period "drama" rather lacking in the latter.
Rating of
2/4
Malick wanna-be
sidehacker - wrote on 09/18/2007
The cinematography, as expected is pretty fantastic. Very reminiscent of Malick and as a whole one of the best photographed films I've ever seen. I don't think there's anything else positive to say about this film. The characters are either incredibly pretentious and speak like poets or are incredibly obnoxious and unlikable. Towards the end, it gets even worse because they become completely uninteresting. Their motivations, desires, and feelings are jumbled in some sort of allegorical mess. Weir is not the one to blame but instead the script is. For a film with such profound beauty you'd expect some insight into the characters but instead it's mostly involved with the plot. The problem here is that the character aren't really shallow or are they flesh puppets manipulated to create …
