MovieChat Forums > Cracks (2011) Discussion > Heavenly Creatures and Picnic at Hanging...

Heavenly Creatures and Picnic at Hanging Rock

posted 12 years ago by nowisthemoment
9 replies | jump to latest

But nowhere near as good as either of those...

[–] JM_Hizon 12 years ago

On that note, Poppy did remind me of Juliet from Heavenly Creatures.

[–] ElectricKoolaidAcid 12 years ago

Don't forget the Prime of Ms. Jean Brodie, too!

Just sayin'...

[–] goodnightmoon 12 years ago

And The Children's Hour.

[–] Brennan-8 11 years ago

That's what it honestly reminded me of. I dug it.

[–] lazarillo 11 years ago

I've always though they should make a "Lord of the Flies" with females, but somewhat older females (preferably played by typically hot twenty-something "teenagers"). I suppose this was close to that.

With Eva Green, Maria Valverde, AND Juno Temple I would have predicted this to be some kind of European skin-fest, but I actually found it to be a pretty interesting film.

[–] jillwill-1 11 years ago

There's a great book called "John Dollar" by Marianne Wiggins that is a female Lord of the Flies-- always thought it would make a great movie

[–] josephnatescott 10 years ago

"It's derivative of The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie and Lord Of The Flies." -- costar Imogen Poots.

[–] lazarillo 10 years ago

Those are good movies, but I don't really see the similarities. The lesbianism is not nearly as explicit in "Heavenly Creatures" and it involves more shared childish fantasies between girls of the same age. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" has a whole metaphysical or at least metaphoric element to it, and the only thing it really has in common with this is it's takes place in a rural girls' boarding school.

I'd say this is IS fairly close to "The Prime of Jean Brodie" though. It's also similar to the Canadian movie "Lost and Delirious"

[–] prplayer 9 years ago

Lost And Delirious too, i didn't dug Heavenly Creatures that much but Picnic was indeed better than this

so many movies, so little time