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Ang Lee must be, with Darren Aronofosky, the most versatile director at work right now. I mean, seriously, you just need check his movies: ‘The Wedding banquet’, ‘Eat drink man woman’, ‘Sense and sensibility’, ‘The Ice Storm’, ‘Ride with the Devil’, ‘Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon’, ‘Hulk’, ‘Brokeback Moutain’, ‘Life of Pi’ and this movie. Most of them were very good but, above all, they were jut so different from one and another. Coming back to our main feature, I didn't expect it but the plot was actually rather similar to ‘Zwartboek’ directed by Paul Verhoeven. Anyway, of course, I heard about the infamous sex scenes and, indeed, they were rather graphic. Eventually, even though, the story was not always great, it was even confusing at some points, I thought the directing was amazing and the acting from both leads was quite impressive as well. I didn’t expect less from Tony Leung who has always been my favorite Asian actor but Wei Tang was a great discovery as well. Indeed, it was a great acting debut and, eventually, I took me many years to finally see her again in the rather abysmal ‘Blackhat’. Anyway, coming back the movie itself, I really loved the damned thing and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Ang Lee’s work.
8/10
