
They will deeply inhale Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog in theaters and on Netflix as it lingers through this awards season.

A shade more pungent than the fog of aimless slow cinema itself, this smokier variety, Jourdan Aldridge of Premium Beat, is a “filmmaking style, usually in narrative productions, wherein plot, action, and scenes develop slowly, methodically toward a (usually) explosive boiling point.” There’s a sect of astute cinephiles that welcomes every molecule of that approach. Floating like an intoxicating mist in the meadow of cinema is the irresistible vapor of slow-burn cinema.
