{"id":636963,"date":"2026-10-21T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636963\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:38:12","slug":"possible-love-second-trailer-netflix-oscar-hopeful-opens-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636963\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Possible Love’ Second Trailer: Netflix Oscar Hopeful Opens This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re reaching the time of year when festival favorites<\/a> with Oscar hopes start making their way to theaters. This weekend is a big one for cinephiles, as Netflix<\/a> is releasing \u201cBurning\u201d director<\/a> Lee Chang-dong<\/a>\u2018s latest heartbreaker \u201cPossible Love<\/a>\u201d in select theaters.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s latest work uses the production of a fictional documentary to explore class divides, following two families from different ends of the socioeconomic spectrum who gradually begin to covet each other\u2019s lives. The film<\/a> is very loosely inspired by a segment of Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski\u2019s \u201cDekalog,\u201d though Lee takes the material in directions that are entirely his own.<\/p>\n

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Per an official synopsis, \u201cPossible Love\u201d follows \u201cthe intertwined relationship of two married couples facing different paths and hidden desires. Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) lives quietly with her laid-off husband Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and their young son Cheol until a funeral brings them into the orbit of Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong), a documentary filmmaker chronicling laid-off workers, and her husband Sang-woo (Zo In-sung) \u2014 a couple whose affluent lifestyle stands in sharp contrast to their own. When Mi-ok agrees to be filmed, she grows close to Ye-ji, and finds herself uneasily drawn to the unreadable Sang-woo. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear in their daily existence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPossible Love\u201d premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, where it was met with rave reviews. IndieWire\u2019s David Ehrlich hailed it as a \u201cmasterpiece,\u201d noting that Lee uses his literary sensibilities to tell a story that\u2019s subtler than his past works, but no less devastating.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn contrast to Lee\u2019s monumental and more explosive \u2018Burning,\u2019 the story he tells here builds on an instance of terrible violence rather than building to it, but his latest film simmers to a boil at a similar clip, and likewise alternates long dialogue scenes with indelible moments of visual acuity,\u201d his review read<\/a>. \u201cWhile it\u2019s hard for this comparatively restrained domestic saga to compete with Jeon Jong-seo\u2019s sunset dance along the DMZ, Lee retains his gift for whipping spectacle out of thin air \u2014 for infusing something as routine as a car ride home or a quick dip in the ocean with an overwhelming degree of silent pathos. Every moment in \u2018Possible Love\u2019 crackles like a wicked symphony of striated socioeconomic abrasion; every gesture, comment, and detail sharpens the strange geometry that brings these people closer together at the same time as it deepens the divides that will ultimately keep them apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netflix will release \u201cPossible Love\u201d in theaters on Friday, October 23 before it streams beginning on November 6. Watch the film\u2019s second trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re reaching the time of year when festival favorites with Oscar hopes start making their way to theaters.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,593,286714,409,1094,111,139,69,286715,28104],"class_list":["post-636963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-lee-chang-dong","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-possible-love","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}