Ang Lee’s Too-Sexy New Movie?
The MPAA — the group that rates Hollywood movies — has given Ang Lee‘s new film, “Lust, Caution,” an NC-17 rating, and its distributor, Focus Features, has accepted the rating.
The erotic espionage thriller will premiere at the Toronto film festival, then debut in New York on September 28, before expanding to other cities on October 5.
The movie is based on Eileen Chang’s short story about a reticent Chinese drama student who gets caught up in an assassination plot against a Japanese collaborator during World War II.
The rating, which studios usually try to avoid, is presumably for the film’s lovemaking scenes, which involve a variety of provocative sexual positions — all heterosexual this time.
Lee’s last movie, “Brokeback Mountain,” was criticized by Puritans for its same-sex lovemaking.
