ESSENTIALLY “Poltergeist” with lovely Macedonian locations and abundant female nudity, Milcho Manchevski’s “Shadows” is visually striking but gets bogged down in supernatural clichés.
To make an overlong story short: An unhappily married young doctor (Borce Nacev) survives a car crash and is haunted by a group of dead people who repeatedly give him the message “Return what is yours.”
The doctor’s trail leads to some bones procured by his overbearing mother (Sabina Ajrula-Tozija) and to a deceased hottie (Vesna Stanojevska) who literally beckons our hero to some postmortem sex.
Running time: 130 minutes. In Macedonian, with English subtitles. Not rated (sex, nudity, violence). At Cinema Village, 12th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. – Lou Lumenick