Possible Love

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…

davidehrlich

A page-turner. Her and that damn camera…

Karsten

Okay was not expecting this to have so much in common with You Can See Everything

Sydney🚀

The amount of information Lee is packing into the frame is immeasurable. Peerless level of visual and aural storytelling.

Robert Daniels

in times where class war has become a famous topic in the film universe, Possible Love provides the most nuanced, complex, thought through entry in this new micro genre. although it has such a mean, misleading title cause this film is straight up about the total opposite:…

shookone

Lee Chang-dong masterfully probes the psychological and economic tension of his characters. His exploration of class divides in our automation-bound world is so fresh and richly examined.  He builds its characters and world very deliberately, asking the audience to lean in…

The Oscar Expert

the cost of labor, wealthy society co-opting art in the name of (futile) social change, the exploitation of the working person’s story as a result, the dream of luxury crushed by the realization of the world’s reality, hoping your children don’t grow up to face the same…

coffee

Thought-provoking, powerful slow burn that gets better the more I sit with it.  Perhaps all we want and ultimately chase in life comes down to freedom.

cinemonika

You might be surprised to learn that Lee Chang-dong made another lyrical, thorny, novelistic portrait of South Korea's yearning, futureless working-class as told via an ambiguous and bleak romance-drama; and even brought back his two leads from Peppermint Candy and Secret…

Josh Lewis