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...newcomers on Friday at Boston University, with the women downing Manhattan and Marist and the men defeating Manhattan and tying the Terriers. On the women’s side, the Crimson was paced by a pair of freshmen who placed ninth and 10th in the overall field. Thea Lee finished in 19:45 and Eliza Ives crossed the line in 19:46. In fact, all of Harvard’s top seven finishers were freshmen on the women’s side, including a 12th-place finish by Renata Cummins and a 17th-place run by Meghan Houser...
...sumptuous Mata Hari melodrama that measures out its many luxurious over a 2-1/2hr. running time, Lust, Caution (from a short story by the late novelist and screenwriter Eileen Chang) is in a way the perfect blending of Ang Lee's two most popular films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. Like the first, it returns the Taiwanese native to China for a tale of political intrigue; like the second, it locates the passion, melancholy and power struggles of two complicated people. In a new book that includes the movie's original story, script and comments...
...care taken in period detail and psychological nuance, the film's big talking point is three startlingly intense scenes between Leung and Wang. Sex may not sell at the box office (audiences get enough of that in their home entertainment), but it's news at film festivals. And Lee knows how to stoke feverish whispers. When at Venice he was asked if the actors engaged in actual sex, he impishly replied, "Have you seen the film...
...curls her body into his and finally makes an enigmatic but revealing little noise. They have connected. And when he begins to desire her, she can begin to use him. These are things we couldn't feel so strongly if they were expressed in dialogue or a kiss. Lee knows that sex, in movies, can be as eloquent as a knife to the heart...
...Though Lust, Caution won the top prize at Venice, it has not been so widely admired by critics as Lee's other famous films. But it should be, for it mixes daring and delicacy with a master's touch. Toronto has got off to a good start with Lee's elegant, erotic movie - his own Brokeback Bedroom...