Liberté – Albert Serra (2019)
Summer is coming. The temperatures are rising and the stress of the last couple of months is slowly subsiding. I’m even rediscovering my interest in...
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Tag: night
Long Day’s Journey Into Night – Bi Gan (2018)
August 17, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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It has something bizarre to it. Seeing a film by Bi Gan, which defies any temporal and spatial orientation in the middle of a disorienting...
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Closing Time – Nicole Vögele (2018)
May 2, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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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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Abendland – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2011)
July 6, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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The first time I came across the work of Nikolaus Geyrhalter was when I watched his absolutely superb Homo Sapiens, which was so rich, so affective...
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The Woman Who Left – Lav Diaz (2016)
March 2, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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Hooray! I have finally managed to see Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left, which won the Venice International Film Festival about two years ago. I’m always...
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The Essence of Place – Susannah Ramsay (2017)
October 26, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It is 8.30 in the evening. It is dark and wet, although it has stopped raining for a little while. I’m at the RSPB reserve...
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Five – Abbas Kiarostami (2003)
October 12, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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The beach. A beach. Somewhere. It doesn’t matter where we are, and Abbas Kiarostami knows this. What matters is his recording of the soothing and...
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The nocturnal and the slow
April 30, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Béla Tarr’s The Man from London (2007) impressed me with its images that had been shot at night. The almost complete blackness of the night, seen...
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