Macedonian Rashomon
Macedonian Rashomon

Summary/Abstract: I interviewed Manchevski on November 27th 2001, in the “Bastion” cafe. We all know that this ma isn’t only a filmmaker, although his global fame he gain through the film “Before the Rain”. His second film “Dust” got many various responds. In Skopje he was called “Macedonian Gernika”, and the Italian romancer Alexander Barico claimed: “I like ‘Dust’ because it’s an open artwork, it has everything and it’s completely in opposite of everything, it combines the linguistic patterns with the archetypes… Critics aren’t ready for such films and books: it is as you go in the mountains wearing a swimsuit, and you wonder why you’re cold. As the people have seen the train locomotive for the first time and they asked: And where are the horses?” The Italian film magazine “Chak”, in other hand, says that “the new millenium in the film art starts with ‘Dust’”. In Asia, after the success in Tokyo, this film is compared with the popularity of the Marcel Proust…

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