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Shadows (Senki)
Running time 120 minutes
Written and directed by Milcho Manchevski
StarringBorce Nacev, Sabina Ajrula-Tozija, Vesna Stanojevska
Milcho Manchevski’s Shadows (Senki), from his own screenplay (in Macedonian with English subtitles), addresses the cinema’s eternal obsession with death and ghosts with a more somber treatment than was applied to David Koepp’s much underrated and lightly comic Ghost Town earlier this year.
Born in in the Macedonian capital of Skopje, Manchevski studied History of Art and Archeology at his hometown university before going to film school at.
Still, the underlying narrative conceit is strikingly similar in both films in that the protagonist is eventually urged by the ghosts that haunt him to perform an act of closure that will enable them to die in peace.
In the film’s production notes, Mr.
Manchevski’s Director’s Statement elaborates on the subject of his very morbid work: “Shadows is a film about sex and death, and a few important things in between. It is an old-fashioned slow-burn of a film. Shadows is in many ways my most personal film to date, a story of what happens