Se, jie (2007)

Réalisateur:

Ang Lee

Scénaristes:

Eileen Chang (story)
James Schamus (screenplay)
(suite)

Date de sortie:

24 septembre 2007 (Taiwan)

Genre:

Drame | Romance | Thriller | Guerre

Accroche:

To kill the enemy, she would have to capture his heart....and break her own.

Intrigue:

An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

Plot Keywords:

Student | WWII | China | Game | Resistance

Récompenses:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 15 wins & 23 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

A beautiful masterpiece

Ensemble

Tony Leung Chiu Wai	...	Mr. Yee
Wei Tang	...	Wong Chia Chi / Mak Tai Tai
Joan Chen	...	Yee Tai Tai
Lee-Hom Wang	...	Kuang Yu Min
Chung Hua Tou	...	Old Wu
Chih-ying Chu	...	Lai Shu Jin
Ying-hsien Kao	...	Huang Lei
Yue-Lin Ko	...	Liang Jun Sheng
Johnson Yuen	...	Auyang Ling Wen / Mr. Mak
Kar Lok Chin	...	Tsao
Yan Su	...	Ma Tai Tai
Saifei He	...	Hsiao Tai Tai
Ruhui Song	...	Wang's Aunt
Anupam Kher	...	Khalid Saiduddin
Jie Liu	...	Leung Tai Tai
Hui-Ling Wang	...	Liao Tai Tai
Akiko Takeshita	...	Japanese Tavern Boss Lady
Hayato Fujiki	...	Japanese Colonel Sato
Seto Masumi	...	Geisha in Japanese Tavern
Noriko Kohyama	...	Musician in Japanese Tavern (as Koyama Noriko)
Shayam Pathak	...	Jewelry Shopkeeper
Gu Zhang-Ping	...	Hong Kong Tailor
Gao Bo-Wen	...	Male Ping-Tan Singer
Yu Qun	...	Female Ping-Tan Singer
Yat-Tung Lau	...	HKU Theater Audience (as Lau Yat Tung)
Yu Lai Cheng	...	HKU Theater Audience (female)
Yuji Kojima	...	Japanese Commander Taicho
Mizogomi Yoko	...	Japanese Teacher
Minamikata Fumika	...	Japanese Tavern Waitress
Anys Fatnassi	...	New Kiessling Cafe Waiter
Tang Ya Jun	...	Tricycle Cab Waiter
Shi Hong	...	Woman at Police Line
Deng Wei	...	Prostitute in Brothel
Li Dou	...	Old Man at Bookstore
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Lisa Lu	...	Mahjong partner of Aunt
Jacob J Ziacan	...	Western student (uncredited)

Réalisé par
Ang Lee

Scénaristes (dans l'ordre alphabétique)
Eileen Chang		story
James Schamus		screenplay
Hui-Ling Wang		screenplay

Produit par
Lloyd Chao	....	associate producer
William Kong	....	producer
Ang Lee	....	producer
David Lee	....	co-producer
Er-Dong Liu	....	line producer
Zhong-lun Ren	....	executive producer
James Schamus	....	executive producer
Darren Shaw	....	executive producer
Dai Song	....	executive producer
Doris Tse	....	co-producer

Musique originale
Alexandre Desplat

Image
Rodrigo Prieto

Montage
Tim Squyres

Distribution des rôles
Rosanna Ng

Création des décors
Lai Pan

Direction artistique
Kwok-wing Chong		(as Joel Chong)
Eric Lam
Sai-Wan Lau
Bill Lui
Alex Mok
Synderella Peng

Création des costumes
Lai Pan

Directeur de production
Gerry Robert Byrne	....	post-production supervisor
Eric Fong	....	production manager
Chiu Wah Lee	....	production manager
Chi On Leung	....	assistant production manager
Yindy Leung	....	assistant production manager
Mei Fun Mok	....	assistant production manager
Shun Choi Ngai	....	assistant production manager
Wai Luen Pang	....	production manager
Connie Tam	....	assistant production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Tze Hung Lam	....	second assistant director
Rosanna Ng	....	first assistant director

Département Art
Sai Kit Wong	....	property master

Technicien du son
Leslie Bloom	....	foley artist
Marko A. Costanzo	....	foley artist
Chris Fielder	....	assistant sound editor
Mark Filip	....	sound effects editor
Eugene Gearty	....	sound re-recording mixer
Eugene Gearty	....	supervising sound editor
Frank Kern	....	supervising foley editor
Drew Kunin	....	sound mixer
George A. Lara	....	foley mixer
Jane McCulley	....	adr editor
Katherine Gordon Miller	....	assistant sound editor
Branka Mrkic	....	dialogue editor (as Branka Mrkic-Tana)
Jessica Parks	....	apprentice sound editor
Reuben Simon	....	sound editor
Wyatt Sprague	....	sound effects editor
Reilly Steele	....	sound re-recording mixer
Philip Stockton	....	supervising sound editor
Betty P. Teng	....	associate adr editor
Steven Visscher	....	foley editor

Visual Effects
Sarah Barber	....	visual effects coordinator: Mr. X Inc.
Aaron Barclay	....	compositing lead
Michael Becki	....	digital compositor
Barb Benoit	....	digital compositor
Dennis Berardi	....	senior visual effects producer: MR. X Inc.
Kristy Blackwell	....	digital compositor
Jeff Briant	....	visual effects production assistant: Mr X Inc.
Dan Carnegie	....	visual effects animator: Mr. X Inc.
Cyril Frederick Chu	....	digital artist
Ovidiu Cinazan	....	digital compositor
Patrick Clancey	....	digital opticals
Rob Del Ciancio	....	digital compositor
Jeremy Dineen	....	visual effects animator
Anand Dorairaj	....	digital compositor
Jason Edwardh	....	tracking lead
David Fix	....	senior systems administrator: Mr. X Inc
Zachary J. Gans	....	visual effects production assistant: Mr. X Inc.
Matt Glover	....	visual effects production assistant
Omar Gudjonsson	....	digital compositor
Annu Gulati	....	digital compositor
Timo Huber	....	digital compositor
Dushyant Kashyap	....	digital effects artist
Miklos Kozary	....	digital compositor: Mr X. Inc.
Ken Lam	....	digital compositor
Mai-Ling Lee	....	digital artist
Shun Sing Edward Lee	....	senior digital compositor
Elliot Mallon	....	modeller
Jim Maxwell	....	matte painter: Mr. X Inc
Sarah McMurdo	....	visual effects producer: Mr. X Inc
Jaideep Mohan	....	digital compositor
Jesh Murthy	....	visual effects
Kevin Quatman	....	compositing lead: Mr. X Inc
Matt Ralph	....	digital effects artist
Dominic Remane	....	lighting lead
Chris Ross	....	digital effects scanning
Matt Schofield	....	matte painter: Mr. X Inc
Carolyn Shelby	....	digital effects artist
Ben Simons	....	senior technical supervisor
Danita Slaughter	....	digital opticals editor
Brendan Taylor	....	visual effects supervisor: Mr. X Inc
David Thompson	....	digital compositor
Jean Phillipe Traore	....	Flame artist
Michael Turoff	....	visual effects
Lisa Tutunjian	....	digital intermediate editor
Armando Velazquez	....	digital compositor
Brianne Wells	....	preliminary visual effects coordinator: Mr. X Inc
Fiona Campbell Westgate	....	senior visual effects producer: Mr. X Inc
Kyle Yoneda	....	effects animator
Wojciech Zielinski	....	CG supervisor: Mr.X Inc
Thomas Mathai	....	data manager (uncredited)
Mitch Paulson	....	digital colorist assist (uncredited)

Caméra et Département Electrique
Edmond Chan	....	first assistant camera
Perry Ho	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Louis Jong	....	key grip
Tsoi Kubbie	....	assistant camera
Kenny Lam	....	first assistant camera
Man-Ching Ng	....	gaffer

Département Casting
David H. Kramer	....	adr voice casting
Ronnie Shum	....	casting coordinator

Dpartement Editorial
Kenny Becker	....	color timer
George Chavez	....	color timer
Lee Engelmann	....	color timer
Tom Engleman	....	color timer (as Tom Englemann)
Chris Hinton	....	color timer
Gary Levy	....	first assistant editor
Yvan Lucas	....	colorist: Efilm
Tom Mayclim	....	negative cutter
Christian Prejza	....	digital intermediate producer
Tom Reiser	....	colorist assist: Efilm
Lisa Tutunjian	....	digital intermediate editor
Caleb Wisdorf	....	post-production coordinator

Département Musique
Jean-Pascal Beintus	....	orchestrator
Christine Bergren	....	music legal and clearance
Andrew Dudman	....	score mixer
Andrew Dudman	....	score recording engineer
Dan Lieberstein	....	music consultant
Jen Pray	....	music clearance

Divers
Cheung Cheuk	....	production assistant
Tsz Cheung Cheung	....	making-of
Joyce Hsieh	....	production accountant
Wing Tai Lau	....	production assistant
Sherrie Liu	....	script supervisor
Heidi Ng	....	production assistant
Synderella Peng	....	title designer
Chow Hin Yeung Roy	....	assistant: director
Chow Hin Yeung Roy	....	researcher
Ronnie Shum	....	production assistant

Merci
Rebecca Pan	....	special thanks: artistic contribution
Gustavo Santaolalla	....	special thanks

Companies de production

• Hai Sheng Film Production Company (co-production)
• Focus Features
• Haishang Films
• Mr. Yee Productions
• River Road Entertainment
• Sil-Metropole Organisation (in association with)

Distributeurs

• Buena Vista International (2007) (Taiwan) (theatrical)
• EDKO Film (2007) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)
• Focus Features (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• Shaw Organisation (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• TOBIS Film (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2007-2008) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• CJ Entertainment (2007) (South Korea) (theatrical)
• A-Film Distribution (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Distribution Company (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Odeon (2007) (Greece) (theatrical)
• U.G.C. PH (2008) (France) (theatrical)
• Wise Policy (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Blue Sky Media (2007) (Czech Republic) (all media)
• D Productions (2007) (Turkey) (all media)
• Discovery Film & Video Distribution (2008) (Croatia) (all media)
• Europa Filmes (2009) (Brazil) (all media)
• Mars Entertainment (2007) (South Korea) (all media)
• Paradise Group (2007) (Russia) (all media)
• Sandrew Metronome Distribution (2008) (Finland) (all media)
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Technicien des effets spéciaux

• Mr. X

Autres Companies

• C5  post-production sound facility
• Cinerent  equipment provided by
• Decca Records  soundtrack
• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production
• Donna Daniels Public Relations  publicity
• EFilm  digital intermediate
• Exact Cut  negative cutting
• Pivotal Post  editing equipment
• Post Factory NY  post-production facilities
• Sound One Corporation  post-production sound mixing
• Studio Davout  music recorded and mixed at
• Tai Fung (Tsu's) Co. Ltd.  film supplied by
• yU+Co.  main and end titles designed by

Autre(s) titre(s):

Lust, Caution (USA)
Se jie (China: Mandarin title)

MPAA:

Rated NC-17 for some explicit sexuality; Rated R for strong sexual content and a scene of brutal violence (edited version).

Durée:

157 min | 148 min (edited version)

Pays:

USA | China | Taiwan | Hong Kong

Langue:

Mandarin | Japonais | Anglais | Hindi | Shanghainese | Cantonais

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

1,85 : 1

Son:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Classification:

USA:NC-17 | Hong Kong:III | Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) | Taiwan:R-18 | Malaysia:18PL (cut) | South Korea:18 | Germany:16 | UK:18 | Australia:R | Philippines:R-18 | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:16 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (British Columbia/Ontario) | Canada:R (Alberta/Manitoba) | Norway:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Finland:K-15 | Italy:VM14 | Portugal:M/18 | France:-12 | Japan:R-18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R (heavily cut version) | Singapore:R21 (re-release) (uncut) | Argentina:18 | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) (uncut version) | New Zealand:R18 | Peru:18 | Australia:MA (Cable TV rating)

Lieux de tournage:

Hong Kong, China

Société:

Hai Sheng Film Production Company

Anecdotes:

'Lust, Caution' was submitted as Taiwan's entry to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008), but it was rejected on 17 October 2007 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences because many of the film's personnel were not Taiwanese. Taiwan then substituted Huai-en Chen's Lian xi qu (2006).

Goofs:

Anachronismes: The London Taxi seen is the FX4 Fairway which wasn't introduced until 1959.

Connexions De Film:

Références Destry Rides Again (1939)

A beautiful masterpiece

This film is about a woman enticing a top ranking official in the occupying Japanese government, in order to assassinate him.

I am very impressed by this film after just watching 5 minutes of it. The mahjong scene is very well made. Behind all the gossip, it has so much subtle tension. Everyone is secretly calculating another and planning their next move, both in the game and outside the game. Another striking thing that I noticed is that the panning motion of the camera. I am sure it is very tricky to get it right! A continuous shot of taking a piece of mahjong, then the hand of tiles, then throwing the unwanted one away. All done in one shot. It's really good camera work.

There is a lot of complex emotions, both expressed and implied. For example, Wang Jiazhi's pain of having to give up her virginity is skilfully implied. Later, her pain of being intimate with Mr Yee is expressed in a rage. The psychological games in the subsequent parts is well portrayed. Wei Tang is masterful in playing her role. She portrays a wide variety of facial expression and bodily gestures so naturally and skilfully. Her power of seduction is undeniable. The surreal atmosphere that she creates when she is Mai Tai Tai is stunning. I have never heard of her before, and I hope she will get to play in more film in the future.

Despite the film being two and a half hour long, it did not feel like it at all. In fact, I am glad that Ang Lee gives us enough time to appreciate the beauty of the film. The plot is gripping, and there is a lot to be pondered on. Men have to caution against lust, while for women, they may have to caution against something else. I will no reveal it here, watch the film to see for yourself.

This film is a beautiful masterpiece. Just a side note, the sexuality in this film is so extremely the polar opposite compared to Ang Lee's last film "Brokeback Mountain". I find this very interesting.