South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong tackles labour trauma in Venice comeback
- On Sunday, South Korean director Lee Chang-dong premiered his first film in eight years, 'Possible Love,' at the Venice Film Festival, which serves as South Korea's official Oscar entry.
- Lee abandoned his initial 2009 script about a 70-day strike because dramatizing worker pain proved difficult; he revived the project by pairing the labor story with a documentary filmmaker character.
- The plot follows factory worker Mi-ok and her laid-off husband, Ho-seok , whose lives intersect with filmmaker Ye-ji and her wealthy husband, Sang-woo .
- Reuniting with Lee 24 years after 'Oasis,' actor Sul portrays Ho-seok alongside Jeon as Mi-ok, with the film opening theatrically October 23 before debuting on Netflix November 6.
- Lee said audiences should ask themselves difficult questions about maintaining human dignity amid AI's emergence, adding that the film offers "an opportunity for more people to watch and understand the film, and to find their own answers to the questions the film raises.
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This Sunday afternoon, the Korean filmmaker inflamed the Lido with an intense social drama produced by Netflix, which will put it online on November 6. ...
'Possible Love' Is a Delicate Drama of Love and Longing in Anxious Times
(L to R) Sul Kyung-gu as Ho-seok, Jeon Do-yeon as Mi-ok, Cho Yeo-jeong as Ye-ji, Zo In-sung as Sang-woo in Possible Love —Courtesy of NetflixLee Chang-dong’s delicate yet sturdy drama Possible Love—premiering here at the Venice Film Festival, hitting theaters Oct. 23 and streaming on Netflix Nov. 6—is a movie about figuring out how to function in the world. If that description seems confoundingly vague, Lee’s movie is not. It shows us a world wh…
‘Possible Love’ Review: Korean Master Lee Chang-dong’s Transfixing Meditation on Economic and Emotional Unease Is a Quiet Powerhouse
Korean master Lee Chang-dong’s Netflix feature 'Possible Love' is a transfixing meditation on economic and emotional unease across the wealth divide.
Review | Possible Love: Burning director Lee Chang-dong back with another masterpiece
4.5/5 stars “Thou shalt not covet,” reads a title card at the beginning of Lee Chang-dong’s much-anticipated new film, Possible Love – alluding to the title of the 10th part of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s epic Dekalog. But covet what exactly? While Lee’s complex, nuanced drama features a modicum of sexual tension and a soupçon of envy, it goes much deeper. Issues of class and wealth bounce around like frenzied atoms in the Korean filmmaker’s first fe…
‘Possible Love’ Review: Two Married Couples Begin to Covet Each Others’ Lives in the Latest Stunner from ‘Burning’ Director Lee Chang-dong
Class conflict achieves vivid new dimension in this sprawling Netflix drama about the relationship between a rich documentary filmmaker and her blue collar subjects.
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