Lee Chang-dong. Picture: courtesy of IMDB.
Lee Chang-dong, one in all South Korea’s biggest filmmakers, makes his extremely anticipated return to the display screen with a brand new Netflix movie tentatively titled Potential Love. The movie will star the legendary Sul Kyung-gu, with whom Chang-dong beforehand labored on Peppermint Sweet and Oasis, together with Jeon Do-yeon, who featured in his movie Secret Sunshine, and famend actors Zo In-sung and Cho Yeo-jeong.
Potential Love marks Lee Chang-dong’s comeback after an eight-year hiatus, following his acclaimed psychological thriller Burning, which premiered at Cannes and was South Korea’s Oscar entry in 2018. The plot of this new story facilities on the lives of two married {couples}—Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon), and Sang-woo (Zo In-sung) and Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong)—after an opportunity encounter unexpectedly intertwines their lives, inflicting tensions to rise of their respective relationships.
A pageant circuit veteran and acclaimed arthouse director, Lee Chang-dong’s legacy is outlined by critically acclaimed movies, like Inexperienced Fish (1997), Peppermint Sweet (1999), Oasis (2002), Secret Sunshine (2007), Poetry (2010), and Burning (2018). He’s additionally the recipient of quite a few prestigious awards—Oasis earned him the Finest Director Award on the Venice Movie Competition (2003), whereas Secret Sunshine bagged titles for the most effective movie and director on the Asia Pacific Display Awards (2007), the Asian Movie Awards (2008) in addition to the Korean Movie Awards (2007). Poetry obtained the Finest Screenplay Award at Cannes in 2010, and Burning obtained the FIPRESCI Worldwide Critics’ Prize at Cannes in 2018, along with his physique of labor culminating in a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 on the thirteenth Asian Movie Awards.
Lee Chang-dong’s cinema shines a uncooked mild on human struggling, from emotional trauma to existential dilemmas. And if his new movie Potential Love is any indication, he’s nonetheless acquired loads to say about navigating the messy, usually harsh elements of life, love, and battle. According to Netflix, the movie is an exploration of “human expertise via the detailed modifications the characters face” of their lives.
Potential Love, written by Lee Chang-Dong and Oh Jung-Mi, is “now in manufacturing,” says Netflix, and is predicted to launch subsequent 12 months.