Picnic at Hanging Rock review " vanishing schoolgirls haunt a new generation
Malthouse Theatre, MelbourneThis retelling of the Joan Lindsay cult classic proves the book's postcolonial theme remains relevant " and will terrify the pants off youJoan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock was a cult novel before it was a classic film. The movie adaptation broke director Peter Weir's international career, and the symbols and tropes of his work of cinema have proved as culturally haunting as Lindsay's t…