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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Radheyan Simonpillai

CBC Radio

2 days ago

Possible Love explores the limitations of empathy and flaws in allyship in ways that are intimate, brilliant and moving.

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Sam Adams

Slate

2 days ago

Lee’s stellar quartet of leads give us complicated humans rather than representative figures, people who may do things for good reasons or bad but rarely for only one.

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Nick Howells

London Evening Standard

5 days 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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Kiko Martinez

The Cinesnob Podcast

1 hr ago

B-

An overstuffed drama, but filmmaker Lee Chang-dong is talented enough to keep things interesting even when the narrative loses its way.

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Patrick McDonald

HollywoodChicago.com

14 hrs ago

4.5/5

Ardent overview of class status, not only in South Korea but everywhere ... the wealthy play by their own rules, and exploitation takes many forms. It's so interesting when souls are different from their class facade, it lights the darkness.

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Mark Dujsik

Mark Reviews Movies

1 day ago

3/4

It's a bit frustrating and anticlimactic, to be sure, but that also comes across as the purpose of Possible Love.

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Meloney

3 days ago

This is a subtle exploration of the dynamics of two couples and class disparity. It is a quiet movie, and I have to admit I fell asleep at some point and I feel I missed some key points. I could see it again to catch more of the nuances, but I don’t feel a great desire to do so. It was good, but a little long, in my opinion.

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Roberto

5 days 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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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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