IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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COMPETITION<br />
CINEMA OF THE WORLD<br />
<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
China-Taiwan-USA-Hong Kong<br />
Lust, Caution / Sè, Jiè<br />
2007, 35 mm, Colour, 158 mins, Mandarin Chinese<br />
Director<br />
Ang Lee<br />
Screenplay<br />
Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus<br />
Cinematography<br />
Rodrigo Prieto<br />
Editor<br />
Tim Squyres<br />
Music<br />
Alexandre Desplat<br />
Cast<br />
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Mr Yee), Tang Wei (Wong Chia Chi /<br />
Mak Tai Tai), Joan Chen (Yee Tai Tai), Wang Leehom (Kuang<br />
Yu Min), Anupam Kher (jewellery shop manager)<br />
Production Design<br />
Pan Lai<br />
Costumes<br />
Pan Lai<br />
Production<br />
Haishang <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Sil-Metrolpole Organisation Ltd<br />
Shanghai <strong>Film</strong> Group<br />
1212, Tower Two, Admirality Center<br />
18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong<br />
T/F: 852-2529-3898<br />
World Sales<br />
Edko <strong>Film</strong>s Ltd<br />
1212, Tower Two, Admirality Center<br />
18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong<br />
T/F: 852-2529-3898<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>s & Awards<br />
Venice (Golden Lion, Golden Oscilla for Best<br />
Cinematography), Toronto, Golden Horse Awards-Taiwan<br />
(Best <strong>Film</strong>, Best Director, Best Actor, Best New Performer,<br />
Best Screenplay-Adapted, Best Makeup & Costume Design,<br />
Best Original Score), Asian <strong>Film</strong> Awards<br />
(Best Actor - Tony Leung)<br />
Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation <strong>of</strong> this Chinese city continues in<br />
force. Mrs Mak, a woman <strong>of</strong> sophistication, walks into a café, places a phone call, and<br />
then sits and waits. She remembers…how her story began several years earlier, in 1938<br />
China. She is not in fact Mrs Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi. With WW-II underway, Wong<br />
has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at<br />
university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min. Kuang has started a drama society to<br />
shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe's new leading lady, Wong realises that she has<br />
found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences - and Kuang. He convenes a core<br />
group <strong>of</strong> students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese<br />
collaborator, Mr Yee. Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs Mak, who will<br />
gain Yee's trust by befriending his wife and then draw the man into an affair. Wong<br />
transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted - until an<br />
unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee. Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the<br />
occupation, Wong - having emigrated from Hong Kong - goes through the motions <strong>of</strong> her<br />
existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part <strong>of</strong> the organised<br />
resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs Mak in a revival <strong>of</strong> the plot to kill Yee, who<br />
as head <strong>of</strong> the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part <strong>of</strong> the<br />
puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her<br />
dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit… based on a short<br />
story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang.<br />
Director-producer Ang Lee literally needs no introduction to cineastes. In 2006, he won<br />
the Best Director Academy Award for Brokeback Mountain, which also won the Oscars<br />
for the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. Lee also won the Directors<br />
Guild <strong>of</strong> America, BAFTA, Independent Spirit, and Golden Globe Awards for Best<br />
Director, among other industry accolades, for this film, which won the Golden Globe<br />
Awards for Best Picture (Drama) and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature;<br />
BAFTA Award for Best <strong>Film</strong>, Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2005 Venice<br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. In 2001, Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon received the<br />
Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Fillm, Best Cinematography, Best<br />
Original Score and Best Art Direction, as well as Directors Guild <strong>of</strong> America, BAFTA<br />
and Golden Globe Awards for Best Director. Born and raised in Taiwan, Lee moved to<br />
the United States in 1978. After receiving a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts in theatre from the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Illinois, he went to New York University to complete a Masters <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts<br />
in film production. His short film Fine Line won Best Director and Best <strong>Film</strong> awards at<br />
the annual NYU <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. His first feature film, Pushing Hands, was screened at the<br />
1992 Berlin <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> and won Best <strong>Film</strong> at the Asian-Pacific <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. Since then, he has made acclaimed films like The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink<br />
Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil and The Hulk.<br />
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