
Original title: 가능한 사랑
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
Working-class An Mi Ok and Choi Ho Seok, who have been together since middle school and are the parents of a taciturn 10-year-old, are still reckoning with the fallout from Ho Seok’s firing from his factory job after a violently suppressed labor union strike. The well-off Lee Ye Ji, a documentary filmmaker, with her businessman husband, Sang-woo, has decided to make a movie about job layoffs and wants to make Mi-Ok and Ho-Seok her main camera subjects.
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There are challenges and rewards to watching Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, the director’s follow-up to 2018’s Oscar-nominated Burning. The rewards come from the film itself, which deftly explores the exploitation of Korea’s working class…