Hallelujah

Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year.

A most impressive audible film.

Vidor's strict adherence to realism is so effective at times it is stark and uncanny.

Great cinematographic events like Hallelujah are thus always the fruit of great sociological events. Indeed, this film is an eternal testament that transcends both its author-director and the history of cinema itself.