Some scenes aren't crucial to the story's point but are more informational, and some are crucial for the storytelling-the set pieces. We quickly realized that the picnic was the set piece. We had to get that right.
Everyone left behind slips into the bottomless chasm of guilt, fury, and mystification. The case, crucially, is never solved.
Posterity has vindicated Weir, the McElroys, all of them. Picnic at Hanging Rock is untouchable, commonly heralded as the high watermark of Australian cinema.
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