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This film takes place in an isolated lake, where an old monk lives on a small floating temple. The wise master has also a young boy with him that teaches to become a monk. And we watch as seasons and ...( read more 
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MCT:August 21, 2008Per me, il film di Kim Ki-duk più suggestivo. A tratti magniifico nella sua lentezza. Ad ogni modo, bello da morire.
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MCT:August 16, 2008This beautiful -- and beautifully controlled -- film is also an object lesson in how to hypnotize an audience.
This meditation on spirituality, loneliness and accountability could touch your heart's core.
Using perfectly composed shots to amplify an emotionally resonant story, the film successfully argues that "artistic" films do not have to be boring. -
MCT:July 18, 2008
The most beautiful film I have ever layed my eyes on. Absolutley amazing - another favourite of mine.
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MCT:June 30, 2008this a beautiful fable, a real work of art by kim. i found everything to be perfect.
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MCT:June 25, 2008
Kim Ki-Duk delivers again a truly beautiful masterpiece. I consider him to be one of the greatest filmmakers ever. Yet another dreamlike, slow paced film that's nothing more than a excellent package. The character development in Kim's movies is his strongest thing. Also the cinematography delivers beautiful images to the viewers eyes. Higly recommended!
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MCT:June 8, 2008
Fascinating! Korean films and Buddhist movies are not really my thing, but this film was powerful, and moving and really spoke to me. It will stay with you for weeks and even months, compelling you to want to watch it over and over and over again many times! A must have flick!
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MCT:May 3, 2008
I had a few issues with the plot and characterizations but it was all so damn beautiful it really didn't matter. I want a floating temple house.
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MCT:April 30, 2008
Charming, cyclical, cryptic, Buddha, birth, regeneration, letting go, lust, pain, cool water, childhood.
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MCT:April 13, 2008This film is absolutely beautiful. The story is touching and the cinematography is amazing. If I could choose one place in the world to live, it would be on a floating Buddhist temple in the middle of a remote lake.
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MCT:April 3, 2008
Left me speechless! Beautiful! This is the story of a monk growing up in a small hermitage surrounded by water and mountains, as viewed by an older monk.Each season represents a phase in the life of the young ( nameless...) monk. A sad, full of ups and downs journey toward spirituality and eternity, the movie follows the monk while he grows up, and learns a thing or two about life, shatters into the worst kind of existence and is born again, in need.Highly recommended!
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MCT:March 8, 2008
Seen 2 times.
Il me semble que ce serait tellement trop pécher que de tenter de mettre des mots sur une telle oeuvre! Un tel sacrifice, une telle honte que de définir ce qui a déjà été défini maintes fois par les splendeurs de la caméra de Ki-Duk Kim!
Et pourtant, je ne peux m'empêcher de le faire! Non, pas de traduire le film par des phrases, puisque je ne peux surmonter l'impossible et que, même si je parvenais à le faire, ce serait de condamner l'essence d'une telle valse des saisons.
Ce lac, cette berge, cette porte, cet instant précis. Qu'ils figent. Puisse-t-on les contempler éternellement dans l'intemporalité, puisse la remise en question naître de cette observation, puisse le monde cesser de tourner un seul petit instant, pour finalement s'apercevoir qu'il ne tourne plus rond depuis beaucoup trop longtemps déjà.
Ce film est un silence vicieux qui s'insinue à travers les failles des remparts de notre âme. Ne vous acharner pas à tenir le fort trop longtemps puisque c'est sur vous qu'il s'effondrera. Cessez de résister: ça ne vaut pas la peine. Ce serait peine perdue, et ce serait surtout dommage. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring est une complète remise en question du ''moi'', il supprime les individus et aliènent les principes. Logiquement, c'est exactement le genre de film qui pourrait remodeler une société si on prenait vraiment l'occasion de lui ouvrir notre coeur. Un jeu dangereux certes, puisque les dommages qu'il risque d'engendrer sont des plaies béantes dans l'égoïsme humain qui pourraient éventuellement faire perdre pied à la majorité des raisons qui se baladent sur un fil de fer.
Ouvrez-vous aux silences pénétrants, aux bruissement des feuilles, aux frissons du lac et aux criquets aux chants hypnotiques qui accompagnent ce mutisme. Laissez pénétrer en vous ces hommes et ces femmes, dénués d'identité, qui cherchent un sens la vie, qui cherchent à savoir s'il est encore possible d'obéir à une morale, à un code d'éthique, dans une société aussi indépendante, où tous élèvent leur propre notion de la moralité et de ses limites.
Après ça, si vous en ressortez indemnes, il n'y aura qu'une seule cause.
Malgré tout, ce sera vous qui vous serez fermés par crainte de devoir évoluer. -
MCT:March 8, 2008
The very first movie of Kiduk Kim that I have ever watched. Honestly, I was immediately attracted by its really long and... "cryptic" name. A real zen movie, that's how I may say about it. There are very few words, or almost no words at all through out nearly 100 minutes of the movie. Covering the whole film is the nature, really beautiful scenery indeed. Time passes, connecting by the scenes of two closing and opening doors of the pagodas. If you are acute, you can notice many wonderful details. For example: the doors have no walls, the pagoda is alone in the lake, there are only a monk and a baby boy living together... Moreover, each season comes, there are new animals presenting for each characteristics of human, or more precisely, the changes in the little monk's nature. This movie is not for relaxing, it makes you think a lot. About the chain of life, about causes and effects in life... The last scene of the movie is so symbolistic: the old monk, after being so hurt because of the harsh rules of life, decided to kill himself. He attached papers to his eyes, his ears, his mouth and burned himself. This action, I think, means that he no longer wants to observe those things. And then, in the ashes, a snake appeared, representing the circulation of life...
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MCT:March 4, 2008
Languid, mystical movie about very real things: love, desire, guilt, remorse,... Breathtaking in every possible way.
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MCT:March 3, 2008
Visually stunning, highly symbolic and philosophical. Has very little dialogue which adds to the whole tranquil feel.
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MCT:February 22, 2008
Maddeningly beautiful, almost hypnotic, but I couldn't get over this nagging sensation that it was kind of...self-important. It is hard to portray austerity on film and I'm not entirely sure this movie succeeded, but you cannot deny that it's a stunning meditation on many things. Sex, love, hate, religion, all elegantly expressed with no more than 50 lines of dialogue and so many meaningful actions.
This is not a movie to aimlessly leave on the television. You really have to sit down and watch it to get the full effect or else it'll just seem pointless. It's like something you'd see flipping through the really weird channels on your cable box, tune in to for five minutes, and then change the channel again because you don't know what's going on.
Koreans make the most visually beautiful films in the world, and surely Spring is the flagbearer. This is, as far as I'm concerned, a successful nature movie. -
MCT:February 14, 2008
A perfect reminder that the simplest of films, deviod of frills and flash, can be beautiful and profound.
Mandatory viewing for any fan of film.
There's no point in going on and on; I just urge you to see this. -
MCT:January 29, 2008Would like to see at some stage. A foreign film that sounds complex. Would like to see for it's entwining stories.
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MCT:January 28, 2008Beautiful, but so boring. The only reason I didn't run away from the theater was because my obese neighbor had fallen asleep. Completely tedious and pointless movie from an otherwise rather interesting director.
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MCT:January 26, 2008
Fantastic... such a beautiful film. Some might find it dull and tedious, but I found it to be both intense and tranquil. Kim Di Duk is an amazing director...
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MCT:January 8, 2008This movie was little bit strange in a sick way. I can understand the idea of Buddhism a little bit so that wasn't the strange thing here but that was how the younger monk turned out to be. The landscapes were beautiful and I loved the old wooden house in the middle of the lake. This was just too much artistic for my taste. It didn't make me feel particularly happy more like debressed.
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MCT:January 5, 2008
Je veux le revoir. Plus dirigé vers la morale que d'autres choses ce film est fantastique, mais je dois le revoir pour écrire un bon review, ça fait longtemps.
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MCT:December 21, 2007
First of all, visually stunning-- Beautifully, and appropriately, sparse. The laconic dialogue is perfect and the relative silence is haunting and speaks more than any amount of dialogue could.
Densely symbolic without being overbearing, like a thoughtful haiku.
My initial reaction to this movie is somewhat like my reaction to Radiohead's In Rainbows; although I'm not sure if I like it as entirely as I was expecting, I can't see anything at all wrong with it... And I have a feeling it will grow on me.
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MCT:November 24, 2007
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom is the story of a monk on a floating temple who raises a boy. This is a beautiful movie about growing up and coming around full circle.
I love the whole idea of this movie. Floating on a river in a temple. The simple life. Trading prayers for necessities. I don't think I would want to share my temple with a little boy though. He was kind of a pain in the ass.
The boy grows up to be a man and realizes that he should have paid more attention to the monk. His life lessons are very hard learned. The way of Buddha is the only way. But we must learn for ourselves.
I highly recommend this movie. -
MCT:November 22, 2007
toate etapele vietii..interesant acest regizor coreean a reusit sa transpuna viata omului cu ajutorul celor patru anotimpuri..este un film cu multe simboluri..
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