You Won’t Be Alone Movie Storyline. In an isolated mountain village in 19th-century Macedonia, a young girl is taken from her mother and transformed into a witch by an ancient, shape-shifting spirit. Left to wander feral, the young witch beholds the natural world with curiosity and wonder. After inadvertently killing a villager and assuming her body, she continues to inhabit different people, living among the villagers for years, observing and mimicking their behavior until the ancient spirit returns, bringing them full circle.
The debut feature of Australian-Macedonian writer-director Goran Stolevski, You Won’t Be Alone is wonderfully unlike any witch film you’ve seen. Its striking artistry and aestheticism blends supernatural horror (there’s no shortage of blood and entrails) with poetic fable, yielding a sensory meditation on life that is unexpectedly emotional and profoundly humanistic.
Even the malevolent ancient spirit, born of suffering and loneliness, is a contoured character. And the young witch (played by multiple actors, including Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, and Sara Klimoska) suggests a transcendent spirit who, across successive lives — woman, man, mother, child — experiences what it means to be human.
You Won’t Be Alone is a 2022 internationally co-produced horror film, written and directed by Goran Stolevski, in his directorial debut. It stars Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud and Sara Klimoska. The film is scheduled to release in theatres on 1 April 2022. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition section, on January 22, 2022.
You Won’t Be Alone (2022)
Directed by: oran Stolevski
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, Sara Klimoska, Jelena Velkovski, Daniel Kovacević, Milena Nikolić, Verica Nedeska, Nikola Marković
Screenplay by: Goran Stolevski
Production Design by: Bethany Ryan
Cinematography by: Matthew Chuang
Film Editing by: Luca Cappelli
Costume Design by: Sladjana Peric-Santrac
Set Decoration by: Mina Buric
Art Direction by: Branislav Dimov
Music by: Mark Bradshaw
MPAA Rating: R for violence and gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, and sexual assault.
Distributed by: Focus Features
Release Date: January 22, 2022 (Sundance), April 1, 2022 (United States)
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