Winner of the Golden Leopard at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, the latest film by All the Long Nights director Sho Miyake is a beautifully staged and delicately poised rumination on the parallels between writing and travel.

Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung stars as Li, a screenwriter living in Japan, who is searching for inspiration for her latest project. The perpetual clash between her desire for solitude and sense of isolation in a foreign land both fuels her own writing and provides the thematic background for Two Seasons, Two Strangers.

Split roughly into two halves, each segment follows a woman as she travels to a different part of the country at a specific time of year, and her interactions with a male stranger.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here