Willow / Врба
by Milcho Manchevski
(Fiction, North Macedonia/Hungary/Belgium, 2019, 101’, C, En ST)
with Sara Klimoska, Natalija Teodosieva, Kamka Tocinovski, Nikola Risteski, Nenad Nacev
A couple in medieval Macedonia cannot conceive. An old woman offers help – but only if they give her their firstborn. Macedonia nowadays. After an in-vitro procedure, Rodna gets pregnant with twins, but it turns out one of the babies will be deformed. Knowing that her husband opposes abortion, she faces a tough choice. Rodna’s sister has adopted a 5-year-old boy. He is very intelligent, but does not say a word. One day he goes missing. Three stories, three unlikely heroines.
« Manchevski secures three outstanding female performances from his main actresses, each one leading her own story of motherhood’s griefs, guilts and impossible sacrifices. Often tragic, often cruel, Willow, as seen through DP Tamas Dobos’ graceful, radiant camera, still retains a lightness and an energy that manages to be, in the end, optimistic, less a story of the willow’s weeping than of its ability to bend with almost infinite suppleness without breaking. » Jessica Kiang, variety.com
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