Two Seasons, Two Strangers
A serene drama about a screenwriter who rediscovers herself during a holiday – and forms a tentative new friendship that echoes the romance in her latest film. Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno.
In winter, Li, a Korean screenwriter living and working in Japan, travels to a snow-covered village to escape her creative block. She stays in a deserted guesthouse run by the enigmatic Benzo. Together, they embark on an unexpected journey.
Two Seasons, Two Strangers explores the subtle beauty found in travel and in breaking routines. The film features a ‘film-within-a-film’ structure, interweaving the story of Li and Benzo with that of the tourist Nagisa, who experiences a summer romance with Natsuo.
The film is directed by Shô Miyake (Small, Slow But Steady), widely regarded as an important new voice in contemporary Japanese cinema. With Two Seasons, Two Strangers, he further confirms his status as a master of deceptively calm, sensitive, and witty studies of surprising human connection.