DistantNews
Support us
🇨🇱 Chile /Culture & Society

Lee Chang-dong returns with new film after eight years, sets sights on Golden Lion

From Cooperativa · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

In-depth Named sources New plan
  • South Korean director Lee Chang-dong presented “Possible Love” at the Venice Film Festival, his first film since “Burning” in 2018.
  • He said social changes and the Covid pandemic prompted him to return to filmmaking and examine how human relationships were changing.
  • The Netflix film follows two contrasting couples, including unionized workers affected by cuts and technologies that threaten to replace them.

After eight years without releasing a film, Lee Chang-dong has returned with “Possible Love,” a Netflix production now competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

The South Korean director, whose last film was “Burning” in 2018, said the social changes of recent years lay behind his return. “Throughout these years, I have truly felt how drastically our lives have been transformed and changed,” he said while presenting the film.

Throughout these years, I have truly felt how drastically our lives have been transformed and changed.

· Lee Chang-dongExplaining the social changes that prompted his return to filmmaking.

Lee said the Covid pandemic made him think about the changing relationship between people. “Covid made me think that the relationship between human beings was changing profoundly, and that raised a question: Can cinema continue to connect people?”

“Possible Love” brings together two very different couples. One consists of unionized workers affected by cuts and by the advance of technologies that threaten to replace them. The other is made up of an aspiring documentary filmmaker and her wealthy husband, whose story is also part of the film’s contrast between social worlds.

Covid made me think that the relationship between human beings was changing profoundly, and that raised a question: Can cinema continue to connect people?

· Lee Chang-dongDiscussing the pandemic’s influence on the film’s themes and his return to cinema.
About this summary

Originally published by Cooperativa in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

More Stories

From Our Blog