A large group of girls at a British school in Australia go for a picnic near a unique mountain. Four of them climb the mountain, but one comes back. The teacher has also left to climb the mountain and the girls return to school. A young man and his friend see the girls on their way to the mountain and find out they are missing. The pair return to the mountain to search for the girls, but only find one. One of the girls at the school has missing parents and money, so she is about to be transferred to an orphanage.
I can't see why this film was such a critical success or why it has 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. It seemed disjointed, unfocused, inconclusive, lacked a main character and the audio was bad. ... Unless that's what people want. Murky, disjointed plots and whisper acting films get made all the time, so someone must like that. The only positive thing that I saw was camera-work and editing. It looked pretty good. Not even just "good for 1975", but good for any time. The shot which stuck in my mind was one of the women at the school walking up the front steps toward the building as the camera tilted up to follow her. Another memorable set of shots was images of the mountain in which the rock formations suggest faces. I rate this poor because it wasn't painful, just not any good at all.
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