Peter Weir (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director known for films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), Dead Poets Society (1989), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander (2003) and The Way Back (2010).

Weir's films frequently explore the tension between nature and human artifice, individual freedom versus institutional constraint, and often favor atmosphere and visual poetry.

DeBaser reviews celebrate Peter Weir's recurring preoccupations — nature against artifice, individual vs institutions, and enigmatic mystery. Critics highlight Picnic at Hanging Rock, Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show. Overall reception on DeBaser is strongly positive, praising atmosphere, direction and performances.

For:Cinephiles, film students, fans of thoughtful dramas and classic auteur cinema

 A poetics of living, an epic of deviating from the norm, as an antidote to the hardships of rigor.

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 "What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream"

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 "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one" A. Einstein

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