Lee Chang-dong On His Eight-Year Hiatus & Confident Return With Venice Competition Title ‘Possible Love’

Lee Chang-dong has finally returned to feature filmmaking.  The Korean filmmaker has been on an extended eight-year hiatus, which he blames on his “pathological timidity.”  “Unless I have that conviction, I cannot make myself begin the work, no matter the external circumstances or what others around me say,” he tells Deadline via Zoom from his…