Lee Chang-dong Premieres 'Possible Love' at Venice, Sets Oct. 23 Theatrical and Nov. 6 Netflix Release
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Updated · TIME · Sep 2
Lee Chang-dong Premieres 'Possible Love' at Venice, Sets Oct. 23 Theatrical and Nov. 6 Netflix Release
3 articles · Updated · TIME · Sep 2
Summary
Venice debuted Lee Chang-dong’s “Possible Love,” a drama that follows a laid-off worker, his factory-worker wife and a documentarian couple through job loss, class tension and fragile intimacy.
Ho-seok’s unemployment after cuts at major corporation SP drives the film’s emotional core, while Mi-ok’s chance meeting with wealthy Sang-woo and filmmaker Ye-ji opens a story about envy, care and economic precarity.
Ye-ji’s documentary on laborers adds the film’s sharpest moral question: whether her camera captures Ho-seok’s pain honestly or exploits it for dramatic effect.
The film reaches theaters on Oct. 23 and Netflix on Nov. 6, arriving as Lee returns to Venice with a more plainspoken follow-up to his 2018 art-house hit “Burning.”