‘Possible Love,’ Director Lee Chang-dong
Eight years after the sublime Burning, the elder of Korean arthouse cinema returns with a new film.
Backed by Netflix, it is already buzzed-about as one of the streamer’s lead international awards contenders.
Possible Love, Lee’s latest searing melodrama, follows two married couples leading completely opposite lives whose worlds collide, sending fractures through their daily existence.
Korean Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu play Mi-ok and Ho-seok, opposite Zo In-sung and Parasite‘s Cho Yeo-jeong, with Lee co-writing alongside Oh Jung-mi.
Jeon won Cannes Fest’ best actress prize for Lee’s landmark Secret Sunshine.
Sul anchored his classics Peppermint Candy and Oasis, and this marks the pair’s fourth screen partnership.
Lee is usually a Cannes Fest stalwart, but Netflix is certain to bring him back to the Lido for the first time since he had received the Silver Lion for best direction in 2002 for Oasis.
