Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė) is teaching a contemporary dance class to a group of deaf students, which is how she meets Dovydas (Kęstutis Cicėnas), their translator. They hit it off immediately, upon which Dovydas tells Elena that he is asexual. Despite her amazement (and not a little skepticism), Elena falls into a complicated romance with Dovydas in which they both shift and grow in their understanding of what love really is. Slow, from Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradze, is a lush and sensual drama that evokes the rush of affection and excitement and delves into what embodied love means.
https://www.vox.com/culture/23578435/sundance-2023-best-polite-eileen-passages-past-lives
What was even the point of seeking freedom from the USSR only to find a new USSR to obey? The only difference between this movie and the Soviet films about Komsomol members working hard to improve their productivity at a steel plant is that the Soviet films had popular appeal.
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