Amazon’s ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ is a haunting portrait of womanhood

For a long time, reboots were the plague of an entertainment industry that refused to let original ideas and perspectives flourish. But Amazon’s reimagining of Peter Weir’s seminal 1979 film Picnic at Hanging Rock flies in the face of this presumption, reading instead like a reclaiming of the iconic touchstone that explores girlhood through women’s perspectives.

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The six-part miniseries, while deferential to Weir, is more of a return to the original source material: The famous novel by Joan Lindsay set in 1900 Australia follows the unexplained disappearances of three ladies from a finishing school. Starring Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer as the impenetrable headmistress of Appleyard College, it subsumes viewers in not only the surreal mystery of its story, but also the unreality of women’s lives during the Victorian era (and now). Read more…

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