Closing Time – Nicole Vögele (2018)
The beauty of Slow Cinema is that directors welcome you to their world and let you explore it in your own way. If you follow...
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Tag: Nadin Mai
Taste of Cement – Ziad Kalthoum (2017)
April 17, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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My father's hand was the city of Beirut. I came to Ziad Kalthoum's Taste of Cement by accident and it's one of those accidents that you're grateful for. Not so long ago, I read...
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Century of Smoke – Nicolas Graux (2019)
April 6, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There is one aspect of my work in the field of Slow Cinema, which I like more than anything else: the opportunity to travel the...
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The year after Dayton – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1997)
April 2, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Since summer last year, I have slowly but surely made my way through the filmography of Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, who I have started to...
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Til madness do us part – Wang Bing (2013)
March 8, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It was difficult to find time for writing another review. I have been asked to write an essay on Wang Bing for Thessaloniki International Film...
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A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
February 21, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There are films, which I'm grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being...
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The spirit of absence
February 6, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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I have long been fascinated by the power of absence. I hadn't known that this was one element that drew me towards Slow Cinema until...
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An Elephant Sitting Still – Hu Bo (2018)
January 30, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There are good films. There are bad films. There are exciting films, awesome films, overwhelming films. There are also underwhelming films, those that are total...
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Kaili Blues – Bi Gan (2015)
January 24, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It is impossible to retain a past thought, to seize a future thought, and even to hold onto a present thought. There couldn't be a...
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Waiting Time
January 9, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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The end of the year 2018 was, in France at least, a period in which the media focused on the subject of time. The quantity...
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