Acclaimed South Korean film Possible Love hits VIFF Centre starting October 23

Burning director Lee Chang-don takes a masterful look at the the wealth divide

If you didn’t manage to snag tickets to Possible Love at the recent Vancouver International Film Festival, you now have a chance to catch the critically acclaimed South Korean work at the VIFF Centre starting October 23.

As recent exports can attest—think Parasite, Squid Game, and last year’s No Other Choice—the economic disparities between the super-rich and the rest of us is a prevailing concern among South Korea's leading filmmakers. In Possible Love, his first film since 2018's Burning (itself a rumination on the wealth divide), director Lee Chang-dong explores the questionable practices of a wealthy filmmaker (Cho Yeo-jeong) who turns her documentary camera on the workers laid off following a bitter strike. The angry, taciturn Ho-seok (Sul Kyun-gu) becomes a potential subject, and our on-screen documentarian becomes friendly with his wife Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon). But does empathy have its limits?

The sweeping masterwork about class, trauma, and human connection has been receiving rave reviews, with Variety calling it “wonderfully rich and deep”. Learn more about the VIFF Centre screenings, which continue through to October 29, here.

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