Having recently watched Jerzy Kawalerowicz's "Night Train" (1959), and being genuinely impressed by it, I had high expectations from the same director's "Shadow", made only three years earlier, but it didn't live up to them. Ironically, the best sections of "Shadow" also involve trains, but they are short - they come only at the beginning and the end. The rest of the film gets derailed (pun intended) by other stories that are not very interesting. "Shadow" lacks "Night Train"'s narrative economy and discipline; it is rather long-winded and incoherent instead. It does feature some good camerawork, though. *1/2 out of 4.