Films

Multi award winning film by Korean director Kim Ki-duk. A Buddhist inspire fable takes place on a placid lake nestled among hills on which floats a small one-room monastery housing two monks, one old and one young. The action takes place over the course of several years, and is divided into five sections denoted by the seasons of the title. While each section tells a story of its own, the overall plot follows the education of thh younger monk, small boy in the beginning, as he learns lessons over the course of his life from his aging coutnerpart. Troubled outsiders also visit the monastery seeking guidance, including all ill young woman and a man who murdered his wife. As the title suggests, the film's ultimate theme is cyclical renewal. Just as the seasons pass through phases of birth and death and rebirth, so do the lives of Kim's characters.

This is a great film and well worth seeing again if you have seen it before. Although it is in Korean there is very little speaking and the actions tell the story.