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‘Fighting an impossible fight is the only way to reclaim dignity’: Lee Chang-dong on class warfare and his searing Oscar contender
Source: The Guardian · Published
The auteur’s new film – a study of labour, capital and the fallout of redundancy – won the grand jury prize at Venice. Telling tales of the disenfranchised is ‘our moral responsibility’, he says A quintessential 21st-century horror story: a private equity firm has set its sights on your company. That’s the premise behind director Lee Chang-dong’s new film, Possible Love, and the idea for it first…
Key points
- The auteur’s new film – a study of labour, capital and the fallout of redundancy – won the grand jury prize at Venice.
- Telling tales of the disenfranchised is ‘our moral responsibility’, he says A quintessential 21st-century horror story: a private equity firm has set its sights on your company.
- That’s the premise behind director Lee Chang-dong’s new film, Possible Love, and the idea for it first…
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