Ang Lee adaptiert den Roman der chinesischen Autorin Eileen Chang: ein kraftvolles Drama über Begehren und Hingabe im besetzten Shanghai der 40er Jahre.

Nearly a decade after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and following the worldwide success of Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee won a rare second (and consecutive!) Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for period film Lust, Caution: an ambitiously conceived, pristinely realised political thriller.