Ang Lee’s Lust

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/ang_lee_tale_of_romance_lust_caution/
Looking for the careful attention to detail and confident touch of an experienced auteur for that sweeping tale of romance? These days it would seem the man to go to for just such a feat is director Ang Lee. In the past he delicately balanced comedy and period drama in his adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility; paved the way for Chinese language martial arts films to appeal to every segment of the American population through Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and turned the not-widely-accepted idea of homosexual love and devotion into engaging dinner conversation with Brokeback Mountain. He's back at it again this year, tackling the boundaries of affection during the Japanese occupation of China in the racy Lust, Caution.