Well ladies, it’s all over. Tony Leung got married to his longtime girlfriend Carina Lau (they worked together on Infernal Affairs). Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7519187.stm

Two very talented people (well, one very talented person and one slightly less talented person) joined in holy matrimony. How sweet.

WAAHHHHHH!!…gnashgnashgnash.

Rating:  

As the credits rolled at the end of Lust, Caution, I turned to my husband and said, “That’s the best movie Ang Lee has ever made.”

I feel I’m qualified to make this statement since I’ve seen nearly ever Ang Lee film. Lust, Caution is better than The Wedding Banquet, better than Eat Drink Man Woman, better than Sense and Sensibility and Hulk, better than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm, or Brokeback Mountain. I don’t think it’s too soon to say that Lust, Caution will be seen as his life’s masterpiece.

Lust, Caution (based on a short story by the legendary author Eileen Chang) is both epic and intensely personal. The film is set before and during the World War II Japanese occupation of China. Wong Chia Chi (Wei Tang) is a young woman alone; her father has moved to England with her stepmother and brother, and Wong isn’t terribly surprised when his promise to send for her comes to nothing. She goes to university in Hong Kong, where she falls in with a group of idealistic young students. When news of the Japanese invasion reaches Hong Kong, they decide to raise money for a Chinese resistance group by putting on a patriotic play. A reluctant Wong is voted into the starring role. She turns out to be a natural talent, and the donations roll in.

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