For me, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" evokes E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India, made into a film by David Lean in 1984. Picnic at Hanging Rock review – tale of missing schoolgirls haunted by its own retelling 2 / 5 stars 2 out of 5 stars. In that story, a party of British visitors tours the Marabar Caves, which have the peculiar property of turning all speech into a meaningless echo. Allison Keene reviews Amazon's adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock, starring Natalie Dormer as a mysterious head mistress at a 1900s Australian girls boarding school where a tragedy takes place. Picnic at Hanging Rock review – as mysterious as the film, but bigger in every way 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. It's an audacious undertaking to reimagine a story as vividly cemented in collective memory as Picnic at Hanging Rock. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock': TV Review | Berlin 2018. Picnic at Hanging Rock book. “Picnic At Hanging Rock” is a mystery-drama that’s driven by various strong women. Read 1,481 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Joan Lindsay’s novel “Picnic at Hanging Rock” was a mere 212 pages when first printed in 1967. Peter Weir’s 1975 movie of the same name clocked in under two hours (115 minutes).