Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

Forget the raw violence of his earlier work: with SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER… AND SPRING, South Korean director Kim Ki-duk delivered his most serene masterpiece. On a remote mountain lake drifts a monastery where an old monk and his apprentice live through the seasons of existence. It is a nearly wordless tale about the inevitable cycle of life—from childhood innocence to final atonement.

In five chapters, Kim depicts the human struggle with desire and time. This honesty stems from his own vision: “Film students waste too much time studying films and too little time studying life,” he once said. “I make a film to understand the things I don’t understand.”

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER… AND SPRING is a sensuous meditation on detachment. A film that ends exactly where it began, as a new apprentice remains on the water and history simply repeats itself.

On 7 and 16 June, the viewing experience will be enriched with an optional yoga session at Surya Yoga Studio ahead of the film, to help get in the same state of peace, attention and receptivity.