Possible Love

Directed by Lee Chang-dong

164 mins

Korean master Lee Chang-dong’s long-awaited follow-up to his brilliant Burning (SFF 2016) is an incisive portrait of class, trauma and emotional connection in contemporary Korea. Winner, Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at Venice.

Long a chronicler of Korean society’s fissures and injustices, always through a humanistic lens, Lee (Secret Sunshine, Poetry) takes as a starting point a meeting between a documentary filmmaker, Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), and a traumatised worker Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and his wife Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon). Ho-seok lost his factory job years prior under brutal circumstances and has yet to recover, making the couple seem like essential characters for the documentary. Gradually the filmmaker, roping in her wealthy husband Sang-woo (Zo In-sung), begins to broaden the relationship, getting personally close to her documentary subjects. This set-up provides fertile ground for Lee to examine class politics and the effects of rampant capitalism on individuals. A brilliantly conceived ocean swimming scene may well prove to be the most memorable of the year. Mesmerising and indelible, Possible Love is essential viewing.

“It is a finely judged, beautifully acted and rather novelistic work… It is expansive and diffuse in terms of storytelling scope and dramatic focus, rich in intelligence while paying its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent also.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“A profound meditation on trauma, loss of dignity, yearning and class envy, this is a sad but beautiful chamber piece, fleshed out by a superlative ensemble.”

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Tickets

Sat 17 October 2026, 6pm

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Ritz Cinemas Randwick - Cinema 1

Ritz Randwick - Cinema 1

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