‘Slow’ Review: A Swoon-Worthy Romantic Drama Grapples With Asexuality With Loving Care

Romantic dramas — and romantic comedies, for that matter — hinge on the conviction that when we find “the one” we will be all the more malleable for it. It’s not so much that we will change who we are but that who we will become alongside our lover will be a better version of who we are without them. In Marija Kavtaradze’s intimate and touching “Slow,” a budding couple put such a belief to the test, sketching out the challenges of what it means to balance the selfishness and selflessness that’s required when being in a committed relationship.

When Dovydas (Kęstutis Cicėnas) shows up at a dance studio

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