“Didn’t you know beforehand how the world of men is? Sometimes we have to let go of the things we like. What you like, others will also like.” Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring, directed by Kim Ki-duk in 2003, is a South Korean drama set on a floating Buddhist monastery in the middle of…
Month: May 2018
Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
“Haze around the moon, snow is coming soon ” Written and directed by Ermanno Olmi, Tree of Wooden Clogs is an understated and meditative drama set in a small Lombard community in 1898. The film follows the fortunes of four peasant families as they work through the year, raising animals, growing crops and looking after…