“IT’s An Improbable PAIRING YET Nonetheless Exciting News for Film Buffs: Korean Auteur Lee Chang-Dang Is Returning to Filmmaking to Direct a Feature Project Backed. Titled Possible Love, The Drama Is Lee’s First Movie in Eight Years Since His Critically AcClaimed Haruki Murakami Adptation, Burning. The New Film Reunites Lee With The Stars of”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The New Film Reunites Lee with The Stars of His Mist Critically Revered Earlier Work. Possible Love‘S Story Is Said to Follow “The Intertwines of Two Married Couples Leading Completely OPPOSITE LIVES.
Korean Screen Royalty Jeon do-yeon and sul Kyung-gu will play the lead couple, Mi-Ok and Ho-Seok. Jeon Previoously Won The Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actress Honor for Her Performance As the Indelible Lead of Lee’s Searing 2007 Drama Secret Sunshineand Sul Was Unforgettable in the Lead Roles of the Director’s Early Masterpieces Peppermint Candy (1999) and Oasis (2002). The duo also have longstanding screen chemistry, thanks to previous pairs in the korean features I wish i had a wife (2001), Birthday (2019) and Kill Boksoon (2023).
The Second Couple-Sang-Woo and Ye-Ji-Will Be Played by Zo In-Sung (Moving, Escape from mogadishu) and CHO YEO-JEONG (BEST REMEMBERED As A Rich Wife from Parasite).
Possible Love is Co-Written by Lee and Oh Jung-Mi, His Prior Writing Partner On Burning. The Film Is Produced by Pine House Film, WHICH ALSO BACKED Burning.
An International Cult Favorite, Lee Is Revered for the Philosophical NERVE THAT SUFFUSES His Rigorously Inventactive Melodrams, Which Variously Pick Apart The Complexities of Korean Society. He Began His Working Life As A High-School Teacher, Later Become by An Accomplished Novelist Before Transformation to Screenwriting and Directing with His BreakthROUGHHHH DEBUT, Green Fish (1997). He Also Made a Brief, Improbable Forage Into Government, Serving As South Korea’s Minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003 to 2004 (his stint wast by a famt. Institute Screen Quotas for Independently Financed Filmmaking). Last Year, Penguin Random House Published Lee’s First Collection of Short Stories Translated Into English, Snowy Day & Other Stories. Several of his Stories Were Previoously Translated and Publissed by The New Yorker.
ALTHOUGH HE’S DIRECTED JUST SIX FEATures Over His 30-Year Film Career, Lee Has Consistently Won Honors at the Majoor European Festivals-But He’s Never Gone Home. Oscar nomination. Oasis (2002) Won the Special Director’s Prize at the 59th Venice Film Festival; Secret Sunshine Took Best Actress at Cannes; Poetry Received The Best Screenplay Award in Cannes; an Burning Won the French Fest’s International Critics’ Prize.
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