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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Ang Lee wins the Golden Lion
Christoph Huber welcomes the jury's decision to award Ang Lee's new film "Se, jie" (Lust, Caution) the top prize. "This film whose plot moves back and forth between the US and Asia brings to life the melodrama of Shanghai's war years that has played such an important role in Chinese cinema. In 'Lust, Caution' (in the Chinese original Se, jie) the director acts as a translator between East and West, elegantly combining the themes and forms of the cinematic traditions of two different continents in a detailed crime study... The meeting of these two cinematographies is reflected in the two halves into which Lee divides his two-and-a-half-hour long film. It's the way the motifs of the first half are reflected and varied in the second that lends the tragedy its power. 'Lust, Caution' was the ideal winner given that the director of the Venice festival, Marco Müller, has declared that the most important contemporary cinema comes from the USA and Asia. However, it was also the exception in a flawed competition: the one film that all could agree on without compromising artistic standards."
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Meat processing at the Diagonale Film Festival
Christoph Huber gives the Austrian film festival Diagonale, which ended on March 26 in Graz, a favourable review and praises a documentary film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. "There was a good selection of films: the most monumental Austrian premier was Geyrhalter's 'Unser täglich Brot' (Our daily Bread), an uncommented, rhythmical and optically mesmerising sequence of tableaus from the food production industry. From an olive-tree shaking machine to the almost fully-automated processing of meat, the film, which comes out April 21, gives sometimes disturbing insights into an industry the smooth processes of which sometimes resemble science fiction in their synthetic emptiness."
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