Netflix Sets Launch Date for Lee Chang-dong’s Awards Hopeful ‘Possible Love’

Possible Love reunites Lee with two of his most accomplished earlier collaborators. They are joined by Zo In-sung (Moving, Escape from Mogadishu) and Cho Yeo-jeong (best known globally as the gullible rich wife of Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite).

Netflix also shared a poster and a first-look still from the film on Tuesday along with the release plans. The poster shows the film’s two female leads, Jeon and Cho, standing apart beneath moonlit trees at dawn — the frame’s pervasive stillness carrying an.

What Happened

Similarly, the still shows the ensemble cast standing by the sea, with their glances carrying a complicated sense of emotional intrigue. Although he’s never received an Oscar nom or had a film make much international commercial impact, Lee’s work has accrued a.

• In a welcome piece of news for fans of Asian arthouse cinema, Netflix has set Lee Chang-dong‘s much-anticipated drama Possible Love — the revered Korean auteur’s first film since 2018’s Burning — for a.

• The film stars Jeon Do-yeon, who won the Cannes best actress prize as the shattered lead of Lee’s Secret Sunshine in 2007, and Sul Kyung-gu, the unforgettable lead of the director’s early masterpieces Peppermint.

• Along the way, he picked up Venice’s special director’s prize for Oasis, the Cannes screenplay award for Poetry (2010) and, with Burning, the Cannes critics’ prize and the distinction of becoming the first Korean.

Key Details

Pinehouse Film, the Korean outfit that also backed Burning, produces alongside Anonymous Content and NOWFILM.

• Lee co-wrote Possible Love with his Burning writing partner Oh Jung-mi.

• Across six features in three decades, the novelist-turned-director — who also served, improbably, as South Korea’s culture minister in the early 2000s — has picked apart the emotional fault lines of Korean society with.

What Reports Say

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