Goran Stolevski's folkloric debut watches several actors (including Noomi Rapace) play a single shapeshifting witch.
Witches in folklore tend to be outsiders who, whether self-exiled or cast out, look at the communities they’ve left with scorn and/or envy. Not so the protagonist of Goran Stolevski’s, who, having never known social bonds before, slowly assembles her understanding of humanity with something like awe.
A film that begins with a shaky footing but grows more convincing each time its subject takes a challenging new step, it contains horrors but is not at all a horror film: It’s for viewers who care about ancient folklore and myths for their own sake and their meaning as archetypes, instead of asking, “how can this be used to transform a simple genre story into an arthouse hit?”
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