advent calendar

His meditative, episodic narratives mirror the reflective daily revelations of an advent calendar, particularly in works like 'Paris, Texas' and 'Wings of Desire.'

His intimate exploration of small daily moments and accumulated time in films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Broker' captures the quiet, incremental beauty of advent calendar discoveries.

Her observational, time-layered approach to revealing character through landscape and routine, as in 'The Eternals' and 'Nomadland,' echoes the gradual unfolding inherent in advent structures.