Venice film festival rounds up

Ang Lee has walked off with another top award at the Venice film festival, and surprised critics are wondering how he did it. Lust, Caution (Se, Jie) won the Golden Lion late on Saturday, two years after the Taiwanese director scooped the big prize for...

Ang Lee has walked off with another top award at the Venice film festival, and surprised critics are wondering how he did it.

Lust, Caution (Se, Jie) won the Golden Lion late on Saturday, two years after the Taiwanese director scooped the big prize for gay cowboy drama Brokeback Mountain.

In 2005 he was a popular winner. In 2007 he was not.

Reporters and critics in the press room, watching the closing ceremony beamed live on a big screen, booed when Mr Lee's Golden Lion was announced, and again, more loudly, when Hollywood star Brad Pitt was named best actor.

"In all of the pre-award speculation, nobody had thought about Ang Lee's film, not even for one of the lesser awards," Natalia Aspesi wrote in La Repubblica newspaper yesterday.

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