{"id":82773,"date":"2026-09-06T23:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82773"},"modified":"2026-09-06T23:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:56:54","slug":"review-venice-2026-possible-love-movie-review-lee-chang-dong-explores-class-in-masterful-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82773","title":{"rendered":"Review | Venice 2026: Possible Love movie review \u2013 Lee Chang-dong explores class in masterful drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/04\/68c4a29d-644e-4cf2-bdca-0da1b8ea906b_bac5570a.jpg?itok=LcebPcXz&amp;v=1788511103\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">4.5\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">\u201cThou shalt not covet,\u201d reads a title card at the beginning of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Lee Chang-dong<\/span>\u2019s much-anticipated new film, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Possible Love<\/em> \u2013 alluding to the title of the 10th part of Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski\u2019s epic <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Dekalog<\/em><\/span>. But covet what exactly?<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While Lee\u2019s complex, nuanced drama features a modicum of sexual tension and a soup\u00e7on of envy, it goes much deeper. Issues of class and wealth bounce around like frenzied atoms in the Korean filmmaker\u2019s first feature since his award-winning 2018 psychological thriller <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Burning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Possible Love<\/em>, which is playing in competition at this year\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Venice International Film Festival<\/span> before its autumn release via Netflix, has already been selected as South Korea\u2019s official entry in the Academy Award race for best international feature. By putting two very different marriages under the microscope, it proves it will be hard to beat.<\/div>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"methode-html-wrapper oembed-wrapper e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"e2gky7d0 e1drg7e30 e1ciypty0 ehdmpxk0 css-1avyp1d e1hpd36k0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<div class=\"e1hpd36k3 css-79hwxn e1x11wau0\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-VideoTitleContainer\"><default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"25\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 25\" fill=\"none\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-StyledVideoRecorder\" class=\"css-1nnwg93 e1x11wau1\"><default:path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M22 6.22926V18.4315L17.5463 13.9868V17.8655C17.5463 18.1618 17.4383 18.4248 17.2228 18.6531C17.0067 18.8829 16.7498 18.9967 16.4537 18.9967H3.13414C2.80989 18.9967 2.53968 18.8829 2.32425 18.6531C2.10808 18.4248 2 18.1618 2 17.8655V6.79519C2 6.49893 2.10808 6.23665 2.32425 6.00688C2.53968 5.77858 2.80989 5.66333 3.13414 5.66333H16.4537C16.7498 5.66333 17.0067 5.77858 17.2228 6.00688C17.4383 6.23665 17.5463 6.49893 17.5463 6.79519V10.674L22 6.22926Z\" fill=\"#001246\"\/><\/default:svg><\/p>\n<p>Possible Love | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon, the star of Lee\u2019s <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Secret Sunshine<\/em>), who was born to a junk-dealer father and a mother who worked at a car wash, lives with her husband Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu, from Lee\u2019s <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Peppermint Candy<\/em> and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Oasis<\/em>) and their son Cheol.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ho-seok was laid off from his factory job, and this trauma has left him scarred in ways that only become apparent as the story unfolds. Already struggling with alcohol, he admits to feeling \u201clike a dead phantom \u2026 no reason to go on living\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-movies\/article\/3366373\/venice-2026-possible-love-movie-review-lee-chang-dong-explores-class-masterful-drama?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4.5\/5 stars \u201cThou shalt not covet,\u201d reads a title card at the beginning of Lee Chang-dong\u2019s much-anticipated new film, Possible Love \u2013 alluding to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29588,3596,8816,9566,1063,772,29589,1543,28,13216],"class_list":["post-82773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-changdong","tag-class","tag-drama","tag-explores","tag-lee","tag-love","tag-masterful","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-venice","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}