SOUTH LONDONDERRY, Vt. – On Thursday, April 25, at 7 p.m., at the South Londonderry Depot on Route 100, the Vermont Film Festival will present “Hallelujah the Hills.”
Filmed in Londonderry, Vt., in 1963, “Hallelujah the Hills” is an absolutely madcap, wacky romp that won acclaim at that year’s New York Film Festival. It was not widely distributed, but garnered critical respect for mocking the New Wave cinema of that era.
The story is about two city boys who take to the woods to find the girl they both love, Vera, and find out which of them she will marry. When Vera’s father gleefully tells them that she married Gideon two months ago because she was tired of waiting for them to ask, the boys take to the wintry woods trying to recall in their flashbacks the reasons for their obsessive attraction to her, while never losing sight of their rivalry.
There is no cost to attend; voluntary donations will be gratefully accepted.
The Vermont Film Festival is a joint venture of the Friends of the West River Trail, the Londonderry Arts and Historical Society, and the Weston Historical Society.