Possible Love, the new Oscar hopeful from acclaimed Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong now streaming on Netflix, would make a great double feature with You Can See Everything (albeit a long one, given that both films are nearly three hours long). This heartbreaking and thought-provoking drama, written by Lee and Oh Jung-mi, tells the story of a documentarian, Lee Ye-ji (who, like the film’s actual director, is referred by everyone as “Director Lee”) who walks a fine line between manipulation and documenting. The fictional director Lee makes an effort to befriend her subjects, a working-class woman named Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) and her recently laid-off husband, Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu). But can a friendship be genuine when one party is always pointing a camera at the other?
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