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4\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n 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<\/em>.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The first half takes the form of a film Li has written, in which Nagisa (Yuumi Kawai) wanders around a small seaside town, where she meets Natsuo (Mansaku Takada), a fellow tourist whose mother grew up in the area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nWinner of the Golden Leopard at this year\u2019s Locarno Film Festival, the latest film by All the Long Nights<\/em><\/span> director Sho Miyake is a beautifully staged and delicately poised rumination on the parallels between writing and travel.<\/div>\n