Pride Month Movie Night with the Edward Gorey House

On Sunday the 28th from 6:30-8:30 p.m., in recognition of Pride Month, the Edward Gorey House and Thacher Hall will be screening the 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Considered by the Australian Film Institute to be the best Australian film of all time (and they probably know what they’re talking about), Picnic at Hanging Rock – based off Joan Lindsay’s novel of the same name – is a diaphanous, haunting Gothic mystery that follows a group of Edwardian-era schoolgirls on a St. Valentine’s Day outing where they mysteriously vanish. The fear, despair, and eventual madness that follows their disappearance plays out in sunshine-soaked vignettes and extremely starched white ruffles. Incredibly atmospheric and shot through with adolescent sapphic repression, Picnic at Hanging Rock is one of the most beautiful – and most unnerving – films ever made.