Possible Love

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A story of two married couples -- a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse -- crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.

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A perfectly poised drama that's seething with the chaos of modernity beneath its polished surface, Possible Love is a masterful exploration of fidelity and inequality from director Lee Chang-dong.

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Nick Howells

London Evening Standard

22 hrs ago

5/5

For those who like their movies real, this is possibly the finest they’ll see for a long while.

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Justin Chang

The New Yorker

Oct 28, 2026

Possible Love is a multitasking marvel: a drama about the fragility of unions, in every sense, wrapped in a seminar on documentary ethics, but one with implications for the fiction realm, too.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Oct 27, 2026

5/5

Dizzyingly good, hard and tender at once, intricately designed without drawing preening attention to the fact.

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Dionar Hidalgo

Algo Más Que Cine

19 hrs ago

10/10

Lee Chang-dong delivers an extraordinary, deeply layered drama about class, privilege and the exploitation of human suffering. Brilliantly acted and emotionally rich, it's one of the year's finest films.

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Mauricio Jarufe Caballero

Cinencuentro

2 days ago

...Possible Love avoids allowing its characters to become too honest with themselves or with one another. Instead, it opts for a mise-en-scène in which subtext takes on greater importance and decoding is left to the audience. [Full review in Spanish]

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Diane Carson

AWFJ.org

5 days ago

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Lee Chang-dong’s "Possible Love" explores the impact of South Korean’s massive labor layoffs and the anguish instigated. His conduit is one man, Ho-seok, now coping with his and his co-workers’ ordeal.

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Roberto

23 hrs ago

Nothing much happens, yet everything is happening. It is such a beautiful piece of storytelling—profound, well-conceived, and featuring incredible actors.

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Kabir

Oct 26, 2026

Classic Lee Chang Dong. It’s not for everyone. But those who want to feel something real, watch this film. It’s beautiful.

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John D

Oct 25, 2026

Im gonna need some time with this one

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Jayden

Oct 25, 2026

It took a bit to get into it at first, but once the movie starts to slowly reveal what it’s actually doing, I was FULLY ENGROSSED.

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Jonathan J

Oct 25, 2026

Amazingly interwoven between class, gender, role and philosophy. The way that the story sets itself up and then unfurls itself is tender and delicate - dodging expectations and cliches. I loved the ending. Probably my best movie of 2026 (still haven’t seen Resident Evil or You Can See Everything).

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ES

Oct 25, 2026

Masterpiece

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Lee Chang-dong

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Jeon Do-yeon

Mi-ok

Sul Kyung-gu

Ho-seok

Jo In-sung

Sang-woo

Cho Yeo-jeong

Ye-ji

Yuri

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Synopsis

A story of two married couples -- a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse -- crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.

Director: Lee Chang-dong
Producer: Lee Jun-dong, Lee Joon-dong, Lee Chang-dong, David Levine, Chadwick Prichard
Screenwriter: Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jungmi
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Pinehouse Film Co, Anonymous Content, NOWFILM Co
Rating: R (Language|Some Sexuality|Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 23, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 6, 2026
Runtime: 2h 44m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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