Lee's fathomless, curious (in both senses) eighth feature delivers wit, soul, social insight and a scintillating central turn from his "Secret Sunshine" star, Jeon Do-yeon.
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Courtesy of Netflix, Venice Film Festival One of the key moments from Lee Chang-dong‘s last film, 2018’s “Burning,” still glows bright in the memory. A girl mimes eating a tangerine, and explains the knack for making it convincing: don’t try to pretend there is a tangerine, try to forget there is not. It’s a little zen koan that rhymes imperfectly in “Possible Love,” Lee’s wonderfully rich and deep new movie, when Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon, delivering one of the most intricate performances of the year) is entranced by the fancy house by the sea to which she has been invited. “It’s like a place from a novel!” she exclaims, only for her husband to scoff gently at the idea that Mi-ok reads novels at all. “Ok then,” she says agreeably, refusing to be any less enthused, “It’s like a place from a novel I haven’t read.”
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