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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring

— Beauty is in the eye of the director.”

Spring, Summer, Autumn Winter... and Spring [Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom]
  • Director: Kim Ki Duk
  • Korea / Germany, 2003
  • 4 stars out of 5

A tale of loss of innocence and redemption, a film with its own sense of inner peace.

Director Kim appears to ‘atone’ for the fatalism and violence of his earlier outings in the spare, delicate fable of Spring …, the story of a Buddhist monk told in the four symbolic seasons of his life.

Spring … seems to have its own life force, as if the film made itself – a feeling I had not experienced since I saw Oshima’s Gohatto. Effortlessly light, never ponderous and always beautiful, this film stays with you long after the curtain goes up.

Originally published: July 31st, 2006 in Film

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