Hallelujah the Hills

Adolfas Mekas
Part of

55th New York Film Festival

September 29 - October 15, 2017

Two madly impulsive young men are in love with the same woman, who happens to be played by two different actresses, in this semi-slapstick vision of true love inspired as much by Hollywood comedies and romances of the silent era as by the French New Wave.

DIRECTOR
Adolfas Mekas
YEAR
1963
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
82 minutes

Introduction by Jonas Mekas

Inspired as much by Hollywood comedies and romances of the silent era as by the French New Wave, Adolfas Mekas’s debut feature remains, 54 years after its American premiere in the first New York Film Festival, an irreverent delight, a semi-slapstick vision of true love, and a valentine to cinema itself. Two madly impulsive young men are in love with the same woman, who happens to be played by two different actresses. The snow-covered fields and trees of Vermont still gleam as beautifully in this new digital restoration as in the original 35mm. A Kino Lorber release.

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