India, Nov. 7 -- There are films which are easy to describe and even easier to write about. Perhaps due to their unidimensional nature and the way it all comes together for the viewer. Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love is not one of those films. South Korean writer and director is back after eight years with a new film, after 2018's mysterious and haunting Burning. Almost novelistic in its depth and brimming with rich details, this is a film that takes some time to settle in, but once it does, it casts a hypnotic spell. There's an almost transcendental quality in the way this film examines life in all its contradictions, one that cannot be explained.

In broad strokes, it is a film about two married couples getting to know each other. They a...