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“Beyond that simple baseline, the matrix of desire at work in Lee and Oh Jung-mi’s remarkably nuanced script is too slippery to pin down until the movie’s velvet gutpunch of a final scene.”
“Grade: A “Possible Love” premiered at the 2026 Venice Film Festival.”
“He’s a prisoner of the pain that Ye-ji breezily documents like a tourist.”
“By contrast, Mi-ok and Ho-seok have no choice but to confront the hardships that have been visited upon them, and to want for things so badly they can never lose sight of the work they’ve put into each other.”
“For his part, Sang-woo’s work is so frictionless that he can buy and sell entire companies from his laptop while sipping a latte, and his marriage to Ye-ji feels like it’s laminated in plastic.”
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“It’s simple enough to understand what the film’s characters want on the surface — or at least that’s true of its women.”
“Powered by WordPress.com VIP Venice ‘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.”
“‘Possible Love’ “Possible Love” takes brilliant — if unnerving — pleasure in leveling the playing field between its two couples, but those shifty indulgences are too freighted with reality to feel like wish fulfillment.”
“Yes, their history together — fleshed out in a series of perfectly modulated flashbacks — is clumsy and imperfect, and their financial prospects for the future are tenuous at best, but they will never have to covet what this world still offers to people for free.”
“Netflix will release it in theaters on Friday, October 23, and on Netflix on Friday, November 6.”
“Lee is perfectly happy to inflame our anger towards the one percent, and the movie’s jagged script — first inspired by a similar incident at a massive Korean company more than 10 years ago — is at its broadest when poking fun at how blithely Ye-ji inserts herself into Mi-ok and Ho-seok’s blue-collar world.”
“Despite being steeped in the sadness and frustration of the working class, Lee’s drama uses its film-within-a-film construct to refract the moral valences of labor through the prism of what people actually earn through their work.”
“Conceived independently, and then lumped during pre-production into the same tribute omnibus that kicked off with Asghar Farhadi’s dreadful “ Parallel Tales ” at Cannes this year this film shares nothing in common with the final episode of Kieślowski’s series beyond the biblical commandment that Lee splays on screen at the very start: “Thou shalt not covet.” Related Stories ‘The Difficult Bride’ Review: A Haunted Bridal Parlor Drama with Untapped Potential ‘The Debut’ Review: Julianne Moore Shines in Jesse Eisenberg’s Story of Midlife Reinvention in Community Theater And even then, the evidence of that instruction proves elusive in this sprawling drama about two very different couples who are brought together by the violent suppression of a workers’ strike at a major Korean metals factory.”
“By David Ehrlich Plus icon David Ehrlich davidehrlich More stories by David ‘Possible Love’ Review: Two Married Couples Begin to Covet Each Others’ Lives in the Latest Stunner from ‘Burning’ Director Lee Chang-dong Read more ‘Making Marie Antoinette’ Review: Eleanor Coppola’s Tender Documentary About Her Daughter’s Masterpiece Doubles as a Wistful Self-Portrait Read more ‘A Long Winter’ Review: Andrew Haigh Goes Cold with an Immaculately Crafted Coming-of-Age Story Too Restrained for Its Own Good Read more September 6, 2026 10:30 am Add us as a Google Preferred Source 'Possible Love' Netflix Share Share on Facebook Post google Google Preferred Share on LinkedIn Show more sharing options Share to Flipboard Submit to Reddit Pin it Post to Tumblr Email Print This Page Share on WhatsApp Another heart-stopping and novelistically layered stunner from modern cinema’s most literary auteur (a fiction author himself), Lee Chang-dong’s “ Possible Love ” might be dedicated to the memory of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Dekalog 10,” but let’s dispel any notion of it being a remake.”
“In contrast to Lee’s monumental and more explosive “ Burning ,” the story he tells here builds on an instance of terrible violence rather than building to it, but his latest film simmers to a boil at a similar clip, and likewise alternates long dialogue scenes with indelible moments of visual acuity.”
“As the story goes on and Ye-ji convinces Mi-ok and Ho-seok to join them for a weekend at Sang-woo’s luxurious vacation house along the country’s western coast (all the better to entrap the couple on her turf where she can film them at all hours of the day), Lee finds a devious variety of ways to weaponize the running visual gag in which an intimate scene pans over to find Ye-ji hiding in the corner with her camera.”
“While it’s hard for this comparatively restrained domestic saga to compete with Jeon Jong-seo’s sunset dance along the DMZ, Lee retains his gift for whipping spectacle out of thin air — for infusing something as routine as a car ride home or a quick dip in the ocean with an overwhelming degree of silent pathos.”
“Mi-ok and Ho-seok have always felt as if the moon shined only for them at night, and the final moments of this gently shattering and astonishingly well-shaded drama exalt in the freedom they give to each other by saving its glow for themselves.”
“On the other side of the economic divide, the plucky but sad-eyed Mi-ok (played by “Secret Sunshine” actress Jeon Do-yeon, who delivers another once-a-century performance less than 20 years since her first collaboration with Lee) is clearly willing to do whatever it takes to bring her husband back to life.”