BOOK CLUB AT THE NFSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANBERRA WRITERS FESTIVAL

On a Valentine’s Day picnic at Hanging Rock, three schoolgirls and a teacher from exclusive Appleyard College mysteriously disappear.
Peter Weir’s original pan-pipes-and-white-dresses take on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel is just as eerie and mysterious 50 years on.

“One of the most hauntingly beautiful mysteries ever created on film.” – San Francisco Chronicle.

Following the screening, join the hosts of the Secret Life of Books podcast as they unpack the film and the novel that inspired it. This discussion will be recorded as a special episode.

ABOUT THE SECRET LIFE OF BOOKS
Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole.

Every week, these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden story behind the story: who made it, their clandestine motives, the undeclared stakes, the scandalous backstory and above all the secret, mysterious meanings of books we thought we knew.

Sophie Gee is Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Sydney, a professor of English at Princeton University, and the author of several books about literature. She’s co-host of the Secret Life of Books podcast, regularly the #1 books podcast in Australia and the UK.

Jonty Claypole is CEO of Red Room Poetry and co-host of the Secret Life of Books. He was formerly Director of Arts at the BBC and is the author of Words Fail Us: In Defence of Dysfluency.