Rotten
Milcho Manchevski's Shadows is visually striking but gets bogged down in supernatural cliches.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Shadows
Sometimes the dead speak louder than the living.
2007 · 2h · N/A
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Directed by
Milcho Manchevski
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Shadows
Overview
A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...
Director and cast
- Milcho Manchevski Director
- Borče Načev as Dr Lazar Perkov
- Vesna Stanojevska as Menka
- Sabina Toziya as Dr. Vera Perkova
- Salaetin Bilal as Gerasim
- Ratka Radmanović as Kalina
- Filareta Atanasova as Gordana
- Dimitar Gjorgjievski Cast
- Dime Iliev as Ignjat Perkov
- Petar Mirčevski as Blagojche
- Vladimir Jacev as Shishkin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An unwieldy hybrid of historical allegory and supernatural mystery.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
A respectable enough little ghost story, but it loses a lot of sparkle by being similar to such other guy-talks-to-the-dead thrillers as The Sixth Sense and Ghost Town.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Rotten
Shifting between garish city and bucolic scenes, Shadows offers some arresting images but fails to make good on its intriguing early scenes, with frissons of uncanny menace sunk by a glib, awkwardly paced and increasingly cliche screenplay.
Ben Walters, Time Out New York
Fresh
[The] two very attractive leads, Mr. Nacev and Ms. Stanojevska, were picked out of a pool of aspirants in Macedonia and its neighboring countries. Actually, they are so arresting together that it is truly unearthly.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
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