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Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)

AKA: 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom)

A monastery floating on the water. An old monk trains a young boy. The film cycles through the stages and seasons of his life. Love, sex, death, and all the hard lessons in between. What I enjoy about this movie is how each section manages to keep you invested and carries a meditative quality with very little dialogue. It remains as powerful as when I first saw it years ago. And the cycle begins anew, as is the Buddhist tradition. Oh, how I wish we could escape it.

5 stones we carry in our heart out of 5

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