🔥Lee Chang-dong's 'Possible Love' hits Netflix Nov 6, and the real couple behind it already cried through it
Lee Chang-dong has a new film, 가능한 사랑 (Possible Love), and it comes to Netflix on November 6. For anyone who still thinks about the greenhouses in Burning, this is not small news. It has been doing the festival rounds too: Venice, Toronto, the New York Film Festival, San Sebastián, Zurich, Vancouver and BFI London all invited it.
Netflix released a making-of video, and someone on a Korean board pulled the opening part. Lee says he asks himself three things before making a film: does this story mean something to me, does it mean something to the audience, and does it mean something as cinema. About the title, which many Koreans find a little strange, he says that if you look closely, almost every love story is about a love that is hard to make happen, and the harder the conditions, the more tension there is. So this film asks what kind of love is actually possible, and what that possible love means.
What stayed with me is a news piece going around next to it. Before the VIP screening at CGV Yongsan on September 21, Lee met a married couple, a laid-off SsangYong Motor worker and his wife, who are the real-life models for the story. The headline quotes them saying they cried and cried while watching, and calls the film a promise Lee kept after 16 years. The SsangYong layoffs are one of the most painful labor stories in modern Korea, so this will not be a light watch. One Korean comment said exactly what I was thinking: all his films end on an uneasy note, so how is he going to end this one? Someone who already saw it in a theater said it was good, then added they weren't sure they're even allowed to say that. Who's watching it the day it drops? And would a hopeful ending from Lee feel earned, or like a betrayal of what he usually does?
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