Netflix Adds Lee Chang-Dong Films After Venice Win — SkimNews
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- "Possible Love" won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at Venice, Lee's first film in eight years, and has been selected as Korea's official entry for the Best International Feature category at the Academy Awards.
- Netflix is rolling out Lee's earlier films worldwide — Green Fish and Secret Sunshine have been streaming since August in Italy, the UK, France, Australia, and New Zealand, while Peppermint Candy and Oasis began streaming in Italy and Spain on September 4.
- Poetry and Burning are planned for release in markets including Japan, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, offered with subtitles in up to six languages including Korean.
- Possible Love opens in South Korean theatres on September 23, then Australia and New Zealand on October 22, followed by the UK, Japan, the U.S., and Canada on October 23, before its global Netflix premiere on November 6.
- The film stars Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung, and Cho Yeo-jeong, and follows two couples — a laid-off worker and his spouse, and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse — whose paths cross through a documentary shoot.
- Lee won Best Director at the 59th Venice Festival in 2002 for Oasis, Best Screenplay at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in 2010 for Poetry, and was the first Korean director to win the Ebert Director Award at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival.
Why it matters: Lee Chang-dong's back catalog hits Netflix concurrently with Possible Love's theatrical run across five markets and Korea's Oscar campaign — a coordinated rollout that gives Netflix an art-house credibility play while positioning the director for Academy attention ahead of the November 6 global streaming bow.
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