If a movie can be classified as arthouse, that means it’s slow and boring, right?

Some may think something along those lines, but that right there would be a misconception.

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Cache - 2005

Image via Les films du losange

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Burning - 2018

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Martin being examined by Stephen Murphy in ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’

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Jane Birkin and Gillian Hills in Blow-Up

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Europa - 1991

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A surgeon working on a woman with her face covered in bandages in The Skin I Live In - 2011

Image via Warner Bros. España

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Gene Bervoets and Johanna Ter Steege looking at each other while sitting under a tree in The Vanishing

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Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) stands with her back to the camera, head turned to the side.

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Christiane (Edith Scob) looking offscene in Eyes Without A Face

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Naomi Watts and Laura Harring in ‘Mulholland Drive’

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Headshot Of Laura Elena Harring

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Mulholland Drive