CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Slow cinema: what it is and why it's on a fast track to the mainstream in a frenetic world

theconversation.com: It feels apt that Claire Denis’s new film, High Life is reportedly an idea she’d been toying with for 15 years. The movie is already drawing comparison to Solaris, a science fiction film by the seminal slow cinema director Andrei Tarkovsky.

Denis has dabbled with slow cinema aesthetics before. Her 2009 film White Material portrays a struggling female coffee producer who elects not to flee an impending civil war.

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