The Barre Historical Society will be showing the award winning film "The Stone River" on Monday, November 24 at 6:30 pm at the Old Labor Hall with filmmaker Giovanni Donfrancesco and the stars of the film--your Barre friends and neighbors.
Based on the 2004 book Men Against Granite, Italian Giovanni Donfrancesco’s film uses living residents of Barre to give voice to the words of stone workers whose oral histories were collected during the Depression by Montpelier journalists Mari Tomasi and Roaldus Richmond.
Featured Barre participants include Giuliano Cecchinelli, Todd Paton, Marco Parent, Paul Carnahan, Richard and Marianne Venmar, Alfred Rosa, Valerie Baudet, Jill Cassani, Hjonis Hanson, and Robert and Brenda J. Sambel.
Through its original visual style and its stories of social battles, diseases and deaths, anarchist utopia, tragedy, and hope, “The Stone River” presents both an elegiac lament for a world of stone craftsmanship and a poetic portrait of “The Granite Center of the World.”
The film has been honored as "Best Documentary" by the Italian Golden Globe Awards and Rome Film Festival. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, “You can call this film a documentary but . . . it’s actually not far from the allegorical poetry of the “Divine Comedy.” Others have likened it to a cinematic “Spoon River Anthology.”
The showing will be followed by a reception and refreshments.
Tickets are $10 to benefit the Old Labor Hall. They may be purchased at the door or in the on-line store at http://oldlaborhall.com.
For more information or to make a reservation, email info@oldlaborhall.org or call 802-479-5600.
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