'Lust, Caution' is a dazzling spy thriller

ANG LEE’S spellbinding Lust, Caution (Universal; €24.99) is a dazzling, compulsively watchable spy thriller, mixing eroticism and a powerful performance by newcomer Wei Tang.

Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1942, student Mak Tai-Tai (Wei) sets out to seduce and help assassinate government collaborator Mr Yee (Tony Leung).