{"id":1060,"date":"2007-10-20T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/20\/london-film-festival-2007-lust-caution\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T03:31:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T02:31:15","slug":"london-film-festival-2007-lust-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/10\/20\/london-film-festival-2007-lust-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"London Film Festival 2007: Lust, Caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today saw the gala screening of director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000487\/\">Ang Lee<\/a>&#8216;s latest film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0808357\/\"><strong>Lust, Caution<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/whatson\/lff\/film_programme\/gala_special_screenings\/lust_caution\" title=\"Tang Wei and Ang Lee at the LFF Gala screening of Lust, Caution\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/tang-wei-and-ang-lee-at-the-lff-gala-screening-of-lust-caution.JPG\" alt=\"Tang Wei and Ang Lee at the LFF Gala screening of Lust, Caution\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is his first film since 2005&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0388795\/\">Brokeback Mountain<\/a> and is an adaptation of Eileen Wang&#8217;s short story about a young Chinese woman (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2325018\/\">Tang Wei<\/a>) who is part of a plot to kill a leading member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wang_Jingwei_Government\">Japanese collaborationist government<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0504897\/\">Tony Leung<\/a>) in 1942.<\/p>\n<p>It recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/ots\/2007\/09\/ang_lee_wins_ag.html\">won the Golden Lion<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/cinema\/\">Venice Film Festival<\/a> and is Lee&#8217;s first film in Mandarin Chinese since 2000&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0190332\/\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It screened tonight at the Mayor of London Gala in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leicester_Square\">Leicester Square<\/a> with Ang Lee, Tang Pei and writer-producer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0770005\/\">James Schamus<\/a> in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the review here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-10-20-21150.mp3]\n<p>Download this review podcast via iTunes by clicking on the image below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=253174742\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/itunes.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this year\u2019s festival feel free to get in touch <a href=\"mailto:ambrose@filmdetail.com\">via email<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/contact\/\">contact page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?web=podcast-2007-10-20-21150.mp3\">Download this update as an MP3 file<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?web=podcast-2007-10-18-10588.MP3\"><br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lff.org.uk\/\">Find out more at the official London Film Festival site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Stuart Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today saw the gala screening of director Ang Lee&#8216;s latest film Lust, Caution. It is his first film since 2005&#8217;s Brokeback Mountain and is an adaptation of Eileen Wang&#8217;s short story about a young Chinese woman (Tang Wei) who is part of a plot to kill a leading member of the Japanese collaborationist government (Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}