This paper explores how slow cinema reconstructs romantic storytelling, focusing on temporal duration, emotional realism, and embodied perception. Findings suggest that aesthetic slowness fosters emotional depth and reflective engagement by slowing narrative time and encouraging immersive spectatorship. While many viewers reported heightened empathy and affective resonance, others expressed frustration with the film’s pacing, revealing how audience reception is shaped by cultural context and media habits. The study argues that slow cinema challenges dominant romantic storytelling by privileging process over resolution, presence over spectacle. In doing so, it opens new possibilities for presenting intimacy in film, not as a climactic narrative arc, but as an evolving, embodied condition shaped through time.
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Framework 2.1 Phenomenology 2.2 Neoformalism 3. Literature Review 3.1 Aesthetics of Slow Cinema 3.2 Narratives of Romance in Slow Cinema 3.3 Audience Perception and Institutional Framing 4. Methodology 4.1 Analytical Framework 4.2 Participant Selection and Justification 4.3 Data Collection Process 4.4 Data Analysis 4.5. Ethical Considerations 5. Case Studies 5.1 Viewer Reflections: Thematic and Aesthetic Anchors of Immersion 5.2 Durational Aesthetics and the Phenomenology of Love 5.3 Neoformalist Comparative Analysis: Slow Cinema and the Affective Politics of Romance 6. Results and Discussion 7. Conclusion References