First, let's talk about the sex. There's a lot of it in Ang Lee's new film, Lust, Caution : sweaty, acrobatic coupling that is, by turns, brutish and tender. And the camera doesn't shy away from any panting detail. Explicit even by today's standards, the movie works hard to earn the adults-only NC-17 rating it has been given in the U.S. Shooting the scenes was so exhausting that Lee and his cast could only work half-days. On one occasion, lead actress Tang Wei fainted.
But Lee isn't being provocative merely for the sake...
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