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

2003 ยท film

The film is divided into five segments (the five seasons of the title), each segment depicting a different stage in the life of a Buddhist monk (each segment is roughly ten to twenty years apart, and is physically in the middle of its titular season).

  • attachment to nature
  • slow cinema
  • buddhist monk
  • death of an animal
  • animal abuse
  • art house
  • isolation
  • Buddhism