Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment. In theater, slice of life refers to naturalism, while in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of events in a character's life is presented, often lacking plot development, conflict, and exposition, as well as often having an open ending.
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HubertManne@piefed.social · 15 pts · 216d
I think clerks would apply. There was even two endings where one was less open.
Brekky@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 216d
Lost in Translation has a lot of seemingly mundane moments.
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 216d
Nomadland comes to mind. Something about the whole movie makes it so facinating.
classic@fedia.io · 10 pts · 216d
So many options in Japanese cinema. It's a more common genre there, or so it seems. Nobody Knows comes to mind.
BertramDitore@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 216d
Seconding this. Japanese cinema has this style figured out. A great recent example is Perfect Days. It’s a gorgeous slice of life film with a small but excellent cast. The main character is played by Yakusho Koji (a pretty famous Japanese actor) and he barely has any lines. There’s very little dialogue in the whole film, but it tells a tight and coherent story.
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 216d
Perfect Days imitates the style of Yasujirō Ozu's films. He pioneered this type of filmmaking in Japanese cinema.
classic@fedia.io · 3 pts · 216d
Can't believe Perfect Days didn't pop to mind. On a personal level, a great example of how potent that genre can be
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 216d
Been a while since I've watched it but Kids (1995) might qualify as fitting the category (not sure if it'd be a "best" though).
GreyShuck@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 216d
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) is often considered to be a prime example, I think.
bstix@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 216d
Mike Leigh does movies like that. For instance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/
flabbergast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 216d
Fire Will Come [2019]
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 216d
Dogs In Space, an Australian film from 1986. Among the cast is Michael.Hutchence, former lead singer of INXS.
It's about a bunch of young people sharing a house in the suburbs of Melbourne. It has no real story, although from memory it culminates in a big house party scene. It's shot in a pretty unique way where the camera just wanders throughout the house and there are constantly things happening. Conversations sort of start and stop abruptly as the camera wanders around so you have to piece together the different snippets to develop an idea of who these different people are. Watching it sometimes feels like you're a silent housemate of these people, just observing their chaotic lives.
standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 216d
Would stranger than fiction count?
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 216d
Jim Jarmusch's movies (and Clerks) were the first thing I thought of too. Night on Earth and Mystery Train are my favorites.
statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 216d
Good Morning
It's a cute movie about little boys refusing to speak because their parents won't let them watch the neighbor's TV. Set in a suburban Tokyo neighborhood in post-war Japan.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 216d
There's a movie with Phillip s. Hoffman and he's just huffing paint the entire time.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 216d
Wasn’t that just a documentary?
Maven@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 215d
Recently I loved Perfect Days which is mostly about a guy who just wants to clean toilets while people keep bothering him.
Its super cute and lovely and extremely extremely simple yet a really good watch.
SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 216d
Gummo. That movie confuses me still to this day how it got made.
flabbergast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 216d
One of my favorite movies ever!
thews@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d
The Castle (1997)
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 215d
Yep, though it does have a through-line plot it’s very much in this genre.
flabbergast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d
Corn Island [2014]
glups@piefed.social · 2 pts · 216d
EO. Bits of people's lives in Poland, told through the eyes of a donkey
Triumph@fedia.io · 1 pts · 216d
Slacker (this is the pure winner, there are no contenders) Twenty Bucks Chicago Cab