Slow

of Marija Kavtaradze
Lithuania • 2025 • 1h48 • Vostfr
with Greta Grineviciute, Kestutis Cicenas, Pijus Ganusauskas
Film Festival of Sundance 2023

Dancer, Elena leads a very free sentimental and sexual life. She meets Dovydas, a sign language interpreter who came to assist her for a course she gives to deaf students. They are immediately drawn to each other. As their relationship evolves towards more privacy, Dovydas’ asexuality becomes problematic for Elena. Will the love that binds them be strong enough to allow them to continue living together?

“Can we love each other without sex? Slow ondule pianissimo around her sentimental melodic pattern. For it is above all body, tenderness, sensations, eyes, sincerity, exchanges that it is. A lace of intimate microvariations gradually digging the heart of the plot [...] And a film that naturally owes much to its two main performers and to the delicate photography of Laurynas Bareisa. » Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa.org