Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love opens in Korea after Venice

Lee Chang-dong waited eight years after Burning. Possible Love opened in Korean theaters today.

Venice already handed it the Silver Lion on Sept. 12. That is the Grand Jury Prize, and the first time a Korean film has won it.

Korea's run is limited and short, about two weeks. If you are not there this week, wait for October.

Select theaters in the U.S. and Canada get it Oct. 23. Netflix has it worldwide Nov. 6. Australia, the U.K., Ireland, and Japan get that same late-October theatrical.

Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu play a couple living with a factory layoff.

Cho Yeo-jeong, the rich wife from Parasite, is a documentarian who wants them on camera. Zo In-sung, last in Na Hong-jin's Hope, plays her husband.

The two houses start sharing dinners. Then both marriages start to show the cost. It runs 164 minutes, almost three hours.

Jeon's last Lee film was Secret Sunshine, the one that won her Cannes. Sul has been in that room since Peppermint Candy and Oasis. They have been making this kind of movie with him for decades.

South Korea already sent it as the Oscar entry. Burning made the international-feature shortlist and stopped there.

Venice was Sept. 6. Toronto already happened. The New York Film Festival still has early October dates if you want a seat before the U.S. theatrical.

Netflix is putting Lee's older films on the service too, Burning and Secret Sunshine among them. It depends where you log in.

Our take: if a theater near you books October, go then. Nov. 6 is when most of us will actually see it.