Halliwell's Film and Video Guide to the movie

In 1900, schoolgirls set out for a picnic; some disappear and are never found.

A film that ventures successfully into the mystic and bravely offers no answer to its central puzzle, just a question that continues to haunt the mind. Whether you want to regard it as a parable of sexual awakening or of colonial repression, it successfully retains its own mystery.

w Cliff Green novel Joan Lindsay d Peter Weir ph Russel Boyd m Bruce Smeaton

'Atmospherically vivid, beautifully shot, and palpably haunting'-Michael Billington, Illustrated London News.

'If this film had a rational and tidy conclusion, it would be a good deal less interesting. But as a tantalizing puzzle, a tease, a suggestion of forbidden answer just out of earshot, it works hypnotically and very nicely indeed.'-Roger Ebert.

That photo was sent to me by Sean Twomey. Thanks, Sean!

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