Horror and witchiness give way to a story that spotlights farming and community instead in 'You Won't Be Alone.' Our Sundance review:
What do you think of when someone says shape-shifting witch from 19th-century Macedonia? If it's a wide-eyed young woman fascinated and curious about a small farming village, you'd be right. If it's an old crone with wisps of hair and a vengeful outlook on humanity, you'd also be right. Director Goran Stolevski braids together different elements of humanity, community, and femininity in his unconventional witch movie, You Won't Be Alone.
The real villain of You Won't Be Alone, which may or may not surprise you, is the patriarchy. Although the film is firmly fantastical, with Maria and Nevena both able to shapeshift into different people and animals , their conflicts are distinctly human and grounded in reality. When Nevena breaks from Maria, tired of her abuse, she explores a village and accidentally kills a peasant, Bosilka .
But that means there is a missed opportunity. There is a sort of comfort in hetereonormativity and motherhood-equals-life that feels rote. Stolevski does enough to where it doesn't feel conventional compared to the other characters – Nevena's husband is nothing like Bosilka's or Boris – but as a contemporary audience member, it is where the story starts to fall apart a bit.
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