Bom Yeoareum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom

The Korean title is just a list of seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter, and spring again. That repetition tells you the ending before a single frame runs, and Ki-duk Kim's 2003 drama treats the spoiler as the point. Four people move through five seasons, each one standing in for a stage of life, growth, transformation. The symbolism sometimes borders on diagram, but the film earns its schema by refusing to hurry through it. The strangest and best fact here is that Kim cast himself in one of the four roles, alongside Kim Young-Min, Jong-ho Kim, and Yeong-su Oh. A director who builds a fable about the stages of a life and then walks into it has skin in the game in a way most season-cycle art films do not. It gives the film the odd intimacy of a story told from inside. The characters find love, lose it badly, and grind their way toward redemption while the landscape does most of the emotional talking. The romance plays less like plot than like weather, one more season a person has to get through. The cinematography holds its compositions long past the point most films would cut. Then the second spring arrives, and everything begins again.

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