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

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

POSSIBLE LOVE is another triumph for Lee Chang-dong, featuring four absolutely phenomenal performances from its ensemble cast. The storytelling is so rich with layers and nuance in terms of theme, character, and what’s shown in the frame, patiently building for two hours…

Matt Neglia

Possible Love is incredibly layered and thought provoking. I’m gonna need to see this again to iron out some wrinkles, but on first viewing this portrait of social bonds under capitalism blew me away. I’ll be unpacking this for a long time It takes its time building the…

Brother Bro

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 is incapable of making anything less than a shattering masterpiece. This is nevertheless one of his best.

daniel goldhaber

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

Nothing screams "contemporary Korean cinema" more than the first whistle scene: the ability to convey in a single almost surreal moment (in an otherwise very realistic story) the sense of a gap between social classes that feels impossible to reduce. All of the great Korean…

Gabriele Niola