Tuesday 24 July 2007
Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" Trailer
The film stars Tony Leung (of 2046, Infernal Affairs and In the Mood for Love) and introduces new comer Tang Way in a story about a young girl in WWII Shanghai who is recruited, trained and dispatched to kill a powerful politician but instead, finds herself falling in love with him.
Ang Lee is a director I respect. Unknowingly, I’ve seen most of his films and even those less well received (yes, I’m talking Hulk) have a distinctly foreign feel – you can tell that this isn’t Hollywood film or even American Indie. The whole “outsider perspective” is at play in all of his American films but it falls through into his Asian cinema as well and the trailer for Lust, Caution has a detached sort of feel to it which is not necessarily a bad thing.
The film looks beautiful and I’m certainly excited to see Lee’s take on the familiar story and more than that, I’m interested who this will play out in comparison to Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book which I have yet to see but sounds similar. Verhoeven and Lee are very different film makers but interested to see how each handles the similar plots.
Lust, Caution opens in limited release, no doubt shooting for the Oscar race, on September 28th.
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