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The lives of two married couples from different social strata collide in Lee Chang-dong’s brilliantly unfolding narrative about economic precarity, in which a laid-off factory worker and his wife become the camera subjects for a documentary filmmaker. Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2026 Venice Film Festival and South Korea’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.Nominated for three 2026 Gotham Film Awards, including Best International Feature, Best Original Screenplay, and Outstanding Lead Performance (Jeon Do-yeon).
In such searing dramas as Secret Sunshine (NYFF45) and Burning (NYFF56), the great filmmaker Lee Chang-dong pierces the heart of contemporary South Korea, laying bare the scars of personal trauma and socioeconomic grievance. His extraordinary latest concerns two middle-aged couples from different walks of life who become unlikely acquaintances. Working-class Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) and Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu), who have been together since middle school and are the parents of a taciturn 10-year-old, are still reckoning with the fallout from Ho-seok’s firing from his factory job after a violently suppressed labor union strike. The well-off Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong) and Sang-woo (Zo In-sung) are a documentary filmmaker and her businessman husband; Ye-ji has decided to make a movie about job layoffs and wants to make Mi-ok and Ho-seok her main camera subjects. The result is a brilliantly unfolding narrative of simmering resentments, shifting allegiances, sexual tensions, and queries around nonfiction filmmaking ethics that keeps revealing new layers and meanings, anchored by four towering performances that hit a varying array of fragile emotional registers. Possible Love speaks profoundly to our shared current moment of emotional and economic precarity. An NYFF64 Main Slate selection. A Netflix release.
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