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In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.
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Noomi Rapace
Bosilka
Šenka Kolozova
Biliana's Grandmother
Sara Klimoska
Nevena
Anamaria Marinca
Maria
Daniel Kovačević
Biliana's Father
Irena Ristić
Elica
Carloto Cotta
Boris
Leontina Bainović
Young Nevena
Anastasija Karanovich
Young Biliana
Sofija Jeremić
Biliana's Mother
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I was watching and bearly believing it. It's like Bela Tarr, Robert Eggers, and Terrence Malik decided to make a film together, and this is the product. A living, moving poem! A fearless work of uncompromised vision! It's Art at its purest!
It's a small film in terms of production value, but with its humble means of making a movie, it can awaken some of the most powerful emotions you'll ever experience watching a film. The film examines human nature; what it means to be human in an original, elevated cinematic language. Sure, the cinematography and the camera-work in its entirety may come off as a bit hurriedly, not very well thought out. But what it lacks in visuals, the film makes up for it with its tender score, raw acting performances, and unflinching direction.
'You Won't Be Alone is a film you can't talk much about without interpreting it. I think people will come out of the movie with different interpretations of it, and as far as I am concerned, that's one of the most luxurious qualities of a film as long as that's the filmmaker's goal with it. And that's what this film implied to me. Goran Stolevski embraces one of the most daring storytelling techniques, "don't tell, show," and navigates through this bizarre endeavor not like it's his debut film but a career-peek masterpiece. It's a challenging film. The slow pace, the unwarned jumps in time, and characters showing up without introductions would all present limited appeal to the masses. But to those in the right frame of mind to delve fully into it, the film it'll be a satisfying encounter. It's cinema for the feeling, not for the superficial intellect. The film feels designed to be an experience for the soul. And to think, cinema of these proportions is being made so close to me - it's a Macedonian film, set in the 19th or 20th century Macedonia, and it stays so close to the Albanian-similar Macedonian folklore - thrills me.
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I was watching and bearly believing it. It's like Bela Tarr, Robert Eggers, and Terrence Malik decided to make a film together, and this is the product. A living, moving poem! A fearless work of uncompromised vision! It's Art at its purest!
It's a small film in terms of production value, but with its humble means of making a movie, it can awaken some of the most powerful emotions you'll ever experience watching a film. The film examines human nature; what it means to be human in an original, elevated cinematic language. Sure, the cinematography and the camera-work in its entirety may come off as a bit hurriedly, not very well thought out. But what it lacks in visuals, the film makes up for it with its tender score, raw acting performances, and unflinching direction.
'You Won't Be Alone is a film you can't talk much about without interpreting it. I think people will come out of the movie with different interpretations of it, and as far as I am concerned, that's one of the most luxurious qualities of a film as long as that's the filmmaker's goal with it. And that's what this film implied to me. Goran Stolevski embraces one of the most daring storytelling techniques, "don't tell, show," and navigates through this bizarre endeavor not like it's his debut film but a career-peek masterpiece. It's a challenging film. The slow pace, the unwarned jumps in time, and characters showing up without introductions would all present limited appeal to the masses. But to those in the right frame of mind to delve fully into it, the film it'll be a satisfying encounter. It's cinema for the feeling, not for the superficial intellect. The film feels designed to be an experience for the soul. And to think, cinema of these proportions is being made so close to me - it's a Macedonian film, set in the 19th or 20th century Macedonia, and it stays so close to the Albanian-similar Macedonian folklore - thrills me.
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