It’s hardly surprising when a filmmaker rejects labels placed upon them by others. To put years of diligent, thoughtful work into a personal project and then to read critics and cinemagoers placing their own descriptors on your art likely feels reductive, even dismissive. For many, Lisandro Alonso is one of the figureheads, even progenitors, of the slow cinema movement, a style of film characterized by minimalism, often with a lack of traditional narrative content and an emphasis on the passage...
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