At the Movies
Michael Wood: ‘Lust, Caution’, 24 January 2008
“... melodrama. There is a risk of cliché in this thought, but I am only following the director Ang Lee down this path, and he avoids it through cleverness. In the film moderately scrutable orientals play inscrutable orientals pretending to be inscrutable orientals. The setting is mainly occupied Shanghai during World War Two, with a long flashback set ... ”