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

This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.

• attachment to nature
• becoming an adult
• buddhism
• buddhist monk
• child
• countryside
• cycle
• dying and death
• isolation
• life and death
• living together
• meditation
• mortification
• mountain lake
• penalty
• philosophy
• religious education
• restart
• season
• south korea
• taskmaster
• temple