Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Director: Kim Ki-duk

2003 / 103min / 35mm

Taking place on the grounds of a floating monastery—a constructed set built on Jusanji Pond in the mountains of Cheongsong—Kim’s tranquilly lovely pentalogy film presents five sections from the lives of a novice Buddhist monk and his elder teacher, together illustrating the cycle of life and the handing down of knowledge from generation to generation on the monastery grounds. “Probably represents the purest and most transcendent distillation of the Buddhist faith ever rendered on the screen.”—Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer