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 Picnic
at Hanging Rock (Australia 1975)
Directed by Peter Weir
Featured Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert
 
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A teacher and students of a prestigious all-girl
boarding school went out for Hanging Rock, the most famous place
in Australia. During nap, four students climbed the Hanging
Rock but one came back and told that the rest were disappeared.
And for some reason, the teacher has gone too. It's a movie
based on a true story happened in 1990
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The movie follows the mystique of
rocky mountain and closed world of girls with fragile beauty,
but not the mystery of girl's disappearance. Beauty of nature
and girls arouse more fear. The mysterious description implies
that homosexual feeling around a pretty girl named Miranda is
a cause of girl's disappearance. Peter Weir, who is now famous
in Hollywood, took this movie when he was in Australia.
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 Bilitis
(France 1977)
Directed by David Hamilton
Featured Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen
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16-year old Bilitis, a student of all-girl boarding
school, spend summer vacation with her father's friend Melissa
at her husband's compound in south France. While staying there,
Bilitis had crush on Melissa's sophisticated beauty and tenderness.
Bilitis felt sorry for Melissa whose husband went on a trip
with his girlfriend and started seeking for someone for Melissa.
But Melissa had chosen Bilitis's boyfriend, Lucas.
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Bilitis hurt by asking for sex from
her boyfriend and Melissa cheated on by her husband. The way
how the two started comfort and love each other is a moment
when sympathy changes to love. At the last phase, Bilitis crying
took Melissa's hand into Lucas's, and it's teary. The director
who was known to as a photographer took this movie, that can
be said a work of art with a harmony of light and shadow.
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