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Lust, Caution (Se jie) (2007)

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Reviews Counted:140

Fresh:100

Rotten:40

Average Rating:6.6/10

Consensus: Ang Lee's Lust, Caution is a tense, sensual and beautifully-shot espionage film.

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Rated: NC-17 [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content and a scene of brutal violence

Runtime: 2 hr. 38 min.

Genre: Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Theatrical Release: Sep 27, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $4.4M

Synopsis: An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a... An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee. [More]

Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Wang Lee Hom

Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Wang Lee Hom, Tou Chung Hua, Chu Tsz-ying, Kao Ying Hsuan, Ko Yu Lien, Johnson Yuen, Chin Ka-lok, Su Yan, He Saifei, Song Ru Hui, Fan Kuang Yao, Lisa Yen Lu, Anupam Kher, Jie Liu, Yu Ya, Ling Lin Wang, Dong Zhi Hua, Wang Kan, Song Jian Hua, Takesita Akiko, Fujki Hayato, Seto Masumi, Koyama Noriko, Shayam Pathak, Gu Zhang-Ping, Gao Bo-Wen, Yu Qun, Lau Yat Tung, Lai Yuk Ching, Yuji Kojima, Mizogomi Yoko, Minamikata Fumika, Anys Fatnassi, Tang Ya Jun, Shi Hong, Deng Wei, Li Dou, Lee-Hom Wang, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Kar Lok Chin

Director: Ang Lee

Director: Ang Lee
Screenwriter: Hui Ling Wang, James Schamus
Producer: Ang Lee, William Kong
Distributor: Focus Features

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REVIEWS FOR LUST, CAUTION (SE JIE)

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Jul 7, 2010
Dave White
Dave White
Movies.com

Lovers of genuine cinema will get blue balls

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 27, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Though his direction is unsurprisingly beautiful, the settings lush and the performances wonderful, no one apparently had the guts to insist Lee streamline his rambling story.

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Jul 24, 2009
Mike Scott
Mike Scott
Times-Picayune

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May 13, 2009
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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La mano experta de Ang Lee logra sostener el relato durante sus dos horas y media de duración, con algunos picos de intensidad en un par de escenas brillantemente resueltas.

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May 7, 2009
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total
N/R

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Apr 23, 2009
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix
N/R

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Oct 18, 2008
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello
NPR.org
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For all Lee's meticulous control over this immaculately nuanced melodrama-thriller, there is a surprising lack of emotional draw.

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Feb 28, 2008
Brandon Fibbs
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com

What lingers is the suspicion that women carry a burden of war they can't ever put down, and that even noble idealists can justify turning their girls into whores.

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Feb 22, 2008
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Lee provides no such easy comfort, instead keeping audiences constantly off-kilter, purposefully frustrating them with character behavior that's just...wrong.

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Feb 18, 2008
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
N/R

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Jan 18, 2008
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Jan 15, 2008
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Like the many facets of a diamond, the human heart can find its lustre in dark places. Ang Lee's tortuous film about love and betrayal takes passion through highs and lows as it leads us through its tense and riveting journey

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
Jan 14, 2008
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

There's no doubt while watching Ang Lee's Lust, Caution that you're in the hands of a supreme filmmaker.

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Jan 9, 2008
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

Lust - the word that speaks of inflamed passions, repressed longing and seriously naughty sex stands ill at ease with this rather languid exploration of freedom fighting during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the early 1940s.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
Jan 7, 2008
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

You leave the theatre a trifle exhausted but rewarded by a resonance few films possess.

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Jan 4, 2008
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Saucy sex scenes apart, however, it’s hard to get drawn into a slow-moving, drawn-out story that takes two-and-a-half po-faced hours to reach its jarringly abrupt and confusing conclusion.

Full Review Source: thelondonpaper | comment Comment
Jan 4, 2008
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
thelondonpaper

A pleasure to watch a film as visually stylish as it is psychologically demanding. I wish it had been twice as long.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
Jan 4, 2008
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu
Independent

A shocking disappointment.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
Jan 4, 2008
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

For his sheer muscular verve and ambition, Lee deserves a standing ovation.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
Jan 4, 2008
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
 
 
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