Burning and Secret Sunshine director Lee Chang-dong is returning to directing after eight years. He’ll reunite with Secret Sunshine star Jeon Do-yeon on Possible Love (WT), a feature for Netflix.
The film will follows the ntertwined lives of two married couples leading completely opposite lives. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear in their daily existence.
Jeon, who won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 2007 for Secret Sunshine, will play Mi-ok and Sul Kyung-gu A Normal Family, Idol) is her husband, Ho-seok. The second couple is played by Zo In-sung (Moving, Escape from Mogadishu) as Sang-woo and Cho Yeo-jeong (Parasite, Hidden Face) as Ye-ji. Jeon and Sul have appeared on screen together three times in the past, in I Wish I Had a Wife, Birthday and Kill Boksoon. Sul and Lee also worked together on Peppermint Candy and Oasis.
Oh Jung-mi, Lee’s collaborator on Burning, is his co-writer on the film and Pinehouse Film is the producer, along with Anonymous Content and NOWFILM Co. Pinehouse also backed Burning.
Korean director is known for portraying the complexities of Korean life in his films. He won the Special Director’s Prize at Venice for Oasis and Poetry was named Best Screenplay at Cannes. Burning also competed at Cannes and won the International Critics’ Prize. However, he hasn’t made a film in eight years and this marks his comeback.