By: Jay

After reading this review, I thought about buying a $20 ticket to screen Slow online, because I had seen the summary for this film but had no idea it featured an ace character.

But then I found another review that shed some more light on the central relationship:

“Dovydas is endlessly flexible, willing to stretch and reexamine his own personal boundaries as he begins to trust Elena more. On the flip side, Elena meets every slightly contradictory characteristic Dovydas displays … with confusion or vitriol. She frames Dovydas’ sexuality as something happening *to her*.”

That review also notes that there are “[d]istressing scenes of sexual coercion[.]”

(https://www.slugmag.com/arts/film-arts/sundance/sundance-film-review-slow/)

Wow, hard pass!