Anyone caught off-guard by Korean director Kim Ki-Duk's 1999 romantic shocker THE ISLE will probably be relieved to learn that no one swallows a single fishhook in this exquisitely crafted drama set in an isolated Korean monastery. As the title suggests, the film takes place over the course of five seasons, each separated in time by several years; taken together, they span the lifetime of a young, unnamed monk. The breathtakingly beautiful setting is a remote valley in Korea's Kyungsang Province, where a tiny wooden monastery drifts slowly across the placid surface of a 200-year-old man-made lake. The brightly decorated monastery (reminiscent of THE ISLE's floating o...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
113 mins