What are the elements of a free and successful life? Money? A beautiful beach house stocked with servants? Generational wealth? Getting the deal done time after time?
Or is it something more intangible? Community and love and children and justice? Lee Chang-Dong’s brilliant Possible Love asks us to consider whether class divisions even matter when compared to issues of justice, fairness and family.
It explores why we want what we cannot have and what happens when we get close to our desires. And it asks us to think about how and why we care about others - when the cameras are turned off and we stand naked in front of the sea.
Beautiful, brilliant and moving - this is one of the films of 2026. It captures the spiritual defect at the heart of societies with guile and surprise.
NYFF Screening 3. Q&A with Lee Chang-Dong and cast