South Korea’s Lee Chang-Dong Tackles Labour Trauma in Venice Comeback
The film follows two households divided by a 2009 layoff and a strike, and Lee Chang-dong questions whether filmmakers can turn real pain into fiction.
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South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong tackles labour trauma in Venice comeback
By Hanna Rantala VENICE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - South Korean director Lee Chang-dong returned to the big screen on Sunday after an eight-year hiatus with Venice Film Festival contender "Possible Love", revisiting a divisive labour conflict that shook his h...
Venice (Italy), 6 Sep (EFE).- The race for the Golden Lion of the Venice Festival has been shaken this Sunday by the premiere of the new work of the South Korean Lee Chang-dong, ‘Possible Love’, a applauded exploration of dignity and the different forms of desire that nest in every social class, among the rich [...] The entry Lee Chang-dong, a for the Golden Lion with his exploration of desire among social classes was first published in HolaNews.
(Venice=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = In the new film 'Possible Love', which entered the competition section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival, ... attempted to capture the life of a 'real' person
Lee Chang-dong, Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu on Class, Desire and Reunion in Venice Competition Drama ‘Possible Love’
Every great love story, in Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong’s telling, is secretly a story about love that cannot happen — class, status or fate standing in the way. His new film dares to ask the opposite question, and it took him the better part of two decades, one abandoned script about a 2009 workers’ strike […]
Lee Chang-dong Ends an Eight-Year Silence at Venice With ‘Possible Love,’ Korea’s Oscar Entry
Lee Chang-dong's first film since 'Burning' reunites him with Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu for a slow drama of two married couples and their hidden desires. It competes for the Golden Lion, carries Korea's Oscar hopes, and lands on Netflix in November.
(Venice = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = "I felt like I had matured a bit on set, too." Director Lee Chang-dong (72) smiled as he said this when we met on Lido Island in Venice, Italy, on the 5th (local time), the day before the world premiere of his new feature film 'Love Is Possible'—his first in eight years—in the competition section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival. Sol Kyung-gu, the persona that began with 'Peppermint Candy' (2000…
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