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    The Ice Storm

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    Before Ang Lee won 2 Best Director Awards for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi, he made the impeccable THE ICE STORM which should have brought him a further Oscar Nomination. All set during the Watergate hearings in 1973 during the American Thanksgiving period of November, two families battle what I would call dysfunction of the first order. They navigate a whole host of problems with the greatest resentment and confusion. This is an ensemble acting piece which is far and beyond one of the best assembled for a film. Ang Lee directs with perfection, understanding, though he is Korean, the very stuff that make Americans a very unhealthy nation a good deal of the time. The title THE ICE AGE is rather symbolic, I would say, of the desolation of the lives of these very tragic characters who seem to have no sense of hope, FROZEN, as it were! A FILM EXPERIENCE of the first order. ANG LEE IS A MASTERFUL DIRECTOR who understands all to well what it means to be a lost soul. Mr Lee's Korean films are brilliant as are his American themed features. He is a genius who understands human nature and has made a success of everything he has filmed.

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    pietroantoni@  22.4.2015 age: 36-49 14,528 reviews

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