# Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Possible Love’ on Netflix, A Patient, Powerful South Korean Drama About Class Differences, Discontent, And Ethically Dubious Documentary Filmmaking

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/stream-it-or-skip-it-possible-love-on-netflix-a-patient-powerful-south-korean-drama-about-class-differences-discontent-and-ethically-dubious-documentary-filmmaking/
- Published: 2026-11-06T21:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T21:24:54+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://decider.com/2026/11/06/possible-love-on-netflix-review/
- Topics: Asia, Celebrity, Entertainment, Film, TV, World

## Key points

- A documentary filmmaker draws a laid-off worker’s family into her project.
- The drama examines class, desire and the ethics of filmmaking.
- Lee Chang-dong’s film won a major prize at Venice.

## Summary

Lee Chang-dong’s South Korean drama *Possible Love* follows two married couples whose lives become entangled when a wealthy documentary filmmaker turns her attention to a working-class family affected by mass layoffs. The film explores class differences, grief and unmet desires, while raising questions about the ethics of making a documentary from other people’s hardship.

Sul Kyung-gu plays former welder Ho-seok, whose workplace lost 40 per cent of its workforce; Jeon Do-yeon plays his wife Mi-ok, who is drawn to the filmmaker’s attention and affluent lifestyle. Cho Yeo-jeong plays filmmaker Ye-ji, with Zo In-sung as her husband, Sang-woo, while the Choi family’s 10-year-old son quietly observes the adults’ conflicts. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix.

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