Picnic at Hanging Rock may be a title that you've heard before. If you've never watched the original film, I highly recommend it. It's fantastic and the remake makes it even better by including nudity. Let's take a look at the remake or original versions of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
I'll be honest, I was late - decades late - to giving the original Picnic at Hanging Rock a shot. I recently watched it and I was genuinely blown away. I have to admit that I misjudged this book (movie) by its cover, assuming based on font and costumes that it was a romance akin to Wuthering Heights. But if that was the case, wouldn't it have had some steamy sex scenes?
I should have known better! There is a reason why the Australian Film Institute considers Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock to be the best Australian film of all time.
Instead, the film is a trippy Australian folk horror film about a group of boarding school girls who go on a school-sanctioned picnic to a local park with strange rock formations. Time seems not to exist at this park with several girls being lulled to sleep. Three of the girls and one teacher are lured by an unseen force to the rock. They go missing with locals driving themselves mad trying to figure out what happened at the rock.
It's a gorgeous film that feels like something Sofia Coppola should remake. But the remake was an Australian mini-series...and that remake contained nude scenes.
Lily Sullivan, Samara Weaving, Madeleine Madden in Picnic at Hanging Rock
Ep. 01x03 | 00:26:47 Lily Sullivan, Samara Weaving, and Madeleine Madden are skintastic in this sexy scene! (1 min 20 secs)
The original Picnic at Hanging Rock had sapphic undertones, but it didn't show us any nudity. While there was talk of nudity - girls climbing the rock without their skirts or panties or corsets, for example - we do not see it. We also hear a lot of sensual conversation that makes it seem like some of these girls are more than just friends.
One of the missing girls had a roommate who seemed possessive of her (it's the classic "roommate is actually her girlfriend" lesbian trope of old). In the opening scene, the girl even tells her roommate that she will soon "have to love someone other than me". Ominous! Other women comment on her beauty as if they are in awe of it. Even a female teacher makes odd comments! Maybe those boarding school stereotypes are true.
Lily Sullivan, Samara Weaving, and Madeleine Madden are the young ladies at the center of the drama in the mini-series. All three of them show their asses when they are getting dressed for their fanciful outing. The remake shows us how these girls interact with one another on a daily basis and that includes nudity.
True to the lesbian vibes in the original, the remake further explores this by having the young women make out with one another. Samara and Lily make out as they lay in the grass with the sun beating down on their gorgeous faces.
Watch the buns on these babes in the remake and make your hanging rock hard:
Lily Sullivan, Samara Weaving, Madeleine Madden in Picnic at Hanging Rock
Ep. 01x03 | 00:14:51 Samara and Madeleine strip down, baring their buns, before helping Lily get dressed and giving us a look at her ass as well! (46 secs)
