‘Possible Love’ Trailer: Two Families Are Divided by a Documentary in Netflix Oscar Hopeful — SkimNews
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- "Possible Love" debuts in select U.S. theaters October 23 before streaming on Netflix starting November 6
- Lee Chang-dong directs the film, which uses a fictional documentary production to explore class divides between two married couples — Mi-ok and Ho-seok (a laid-off husband and their son) and affluent filmmaker Ye-ji and her husband Sang-woo
- The central cast includes Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong, and Zo In-sung, with Ye-ji's documentary chronicling laid-off workers pulling Mi-ok into her orbit
- The film is loosely inspired by a segment of Krzysztof Kieślowski's "Dekalog," though Lee takes the material in entirely his own directions
- "Possible Love" premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, where IndieWire's David Ehrlich called it a "masterpiece" and noted it is subtler than Lee's "Burning" but builds from an instance of terrible violence and simmers to a similar boil
Why it matters: IndieWire's "masterpiece" designation on a Venice-launched Lee Chang-dong drama gives Netflix a high-prestige international title to anchor its awards-season push. The October 23 theatrical window followed by a November 6 streaming debut follows the standard qualifying-release pattern streamers use to build Oscar momentum ahead of voting deadlines.
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