Directed by Ang Lee
For a filmmaker who's tackled a wide range of genres, from minor-key Chinese-language comedies to epic kung-fu action, from nuanced literary Americana to iconic CGI-driven superheroics, it's actually relatively easy to spot an Ang Lee film if you know what you're looking for. Superficially, the Taiwanese-born, American-trained filmmaker has an deeply eclectic and diverse taste in subject matter, setting and even style (one could never imagine that "Sense & Sensibility" and "Hulk" came from the same director from the shooting techniques used alone), but all kinds of thematic links recur across the director's work — family, repression, duty, thwarted love or desire. Whether it's 1940s Shanghai or Civil War-era Missouri, you can find the same humanistic concerns, even as the filmmaker finds new things to say about them.
avg. score: 4 of 14 (27%)
required scores: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
