Death of a Shadow

[Available via streaming on MUBI.] When a deceased soldier (Matthias Schoenaerts) who lives in a world between life and death takes more than 10,000 shadow photographs of people at the time of their demise for a mysterious shadow collector (Peter Van den Eede) to get a chance to return to the land of the living in Tom Van Avemaet's compelling, thought-provoking, well-acted, unpredictable, 20-minute, 2012 film highlighted by terrific cinematography, he hopes that a beautiful woman (Laura Verlinden) he met before he died would be interested in him, but then discovers she is mourning the death of the soldier (Benjamin Ramon) she loved and consequently, he does the unexpected.
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