Romy Kraus

Jan 18, 20181 min

Berlinale Series: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Berlinale Series opens with the visually thrilling TV adaptation of the Australian cult classic Picnic at Hanging Rock. Natalie Dormer plays the strict headmistress of a boarding school trying to ensure that her pupils receive a suitably decorous education. But we are led to question whether she herself has always led a demure life. Her dark past catches up with her, and then three girls disappear mysteriously during a school outing.

Picnic at Hanging Rock
 

 
Australia
 

 
Director: Larysa Kondracki (The Whistleblower, Shut Eye), episodes 1-3
 

 
Written by Beatrix Christian, Alice Addison
 

 
With Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Madeleine Madden, Samara Weaving, Lola Bessis, Yael Stone, Inez Currõ, Harrison Gilbertson, Ruby Rees
 

 
Broadcaster: Foxtel
 

 
International Premiere