The Fragile Unions of “Possible Love”
Lee Chang-dong’s drama examines class conflict and documentary ethics through a friendship between two women, after its Venice premiere won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.
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Lee Chang-dong: ‘Am I worthy of telling their story?’
The Korean maestro returns with a sumptuous survey of class, capitalism and what it means to love someone in Possible Love. Lee Chang-dong only makes films when he’s good and ready, as Possible Love is his follow-up to 2018’s astounding love-triangle drama, Burning. This new film explores class, gender, generational conflict and filmmaking through the prism of two couples who breach the economic divide to collaborate on a documentary.LWLies: Do …
Lee Chang-dong makes the issue of inequality in Possible Love. The film about two opposing couples comes without the clichés of the "Eat the Rich" genre Out of the indignation about the rising scissors between the "One Percent" and all the others has developed their own genre over the last decade. It runs under the label "Eat the Rich" and is characterized by the fact that the "Reichen" gets to the collar in some form. In the Oscar winning film …
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