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Synopsis

Director Ang Lee's new film, following his Academy Award win for directing Brokeback Mountain, is an espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai. Asian cinema icon Tony Leung (Hero) stars as Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure in 1940s Shanghai. Tang Wei, a rising star in mainland China, makes her feature film debut as a young woman enlisted as a secret agent to seduce and assassinate Mr. Yee, who works for the Japanese puppet government. Co-starring Joan Chen and Wang Leehom. (Fully subtitled)

This film is rated NC-17 for explicit sexuality. We will be checking ID when necessary.

Film Information

• Genre: Drama / Romance / Suspense / Thriller / War
• Director: Ang Lee
• Written By: Eileen Chang (story), James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
• Starring: Tony Leung, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, and Wang Lee Hom
• Running Time: 157 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: NC-17 for some explicit sexuality
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Lee has perfectly captured the details, textures, sights and sounds of a China caught between East and West, occupied by an ancient enemy and quaking on the eve of an earth-shaking revolution."

   - Ken Fox, TV Guide

"Lust, Caution is both a cannily constructed spy thriller and a grim kind of love story, but it harbors no illusions about the transformative potential of either revolutionary violence or sexual passion."

   - Dana Stevens, Slate

"The sex is REALLY hot. Not hardcore pornographic (at least by my definition of the term) but close."

   - James Berardinelli, ReelViews

"Lee is a true master, and his potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you won't want to break."

   - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"A rich, beautifully detailed espionage thriller that captures the bygone days of Shanghai - and 1940s Hollywood noirs' romantic evocations of same - Lust, Caution is also one of those rare movie experiences: Its scenes of the trysts between Yee and Mak, from their rough-stuff first encounter to the long, tangled love-making sessions of subsequent meetings, are truly erotic."

   - Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Showtimes

• Wednesday, December 19th
  9:15 pm
• Thursday, December 20th
  6:30 pm
• Friday, December 21st
  6:30 pm
• Saturday, December 22nd
  1:30 pm, 7:00 pm
• Sunday, December 23rd
  3:30 pm
• Monday, December 24th
  1:30 pm
• Wednesday, December 26th
  8:30 pm
• Thursday, December 27th
  6:00 pm
• Friday, December 28th
  6:00 pm
• Saturday, December 29th
  8:30 pm
• Sunday, December 30th
  3:30 pm
• Monday, December 31st
  1:00 pm
• Tuesday, January 1st
  6:30 pm