End of winter. Minimalist director Angela Schanelec uses zoom lenses and slow camera movements to make us perfect observers in the lives of people waiting, loving, hating, aching, and moving on during two hours in the Paris Orly Airport. A young woman on the way home to her husband falls for a stranger. A mother and her nearly grown son are travelling to her husband’s funeral. A young couple share tender moments on their first trip abroad. A woman finally dares to read her husband’s break-up letter in the soothing anonymity of public space. All wait for their planes. Unaware of the looming threat outside that will result in the airport’s imminent evacuation, they simply move through the impeccably structured and functional building. (Jay JEON)