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ICE STORM

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Ice StormFilm based on the novel by the same name by Rick Moody that follows along with the changes in behavior and thought in a small U.S. city. The year is 1973. The couple Ben and Elena Hood are taken up by the wave of liberalism of the sixties that promises to move well into the seventies.

Ben is divided between a peaceful home life and the daring of his neighbor Janey with whom he shares amorous adventures in evening escapades. At the same time, his teenaged daughter also makes her sexual discoveries - with Janey's children. Meanwhile, his wife is occupied about the house and with her children - the eldest has just entered th university in an endeavor to keep at a distance from her husband's infidelity. All apparently flows normally, although each of them hides the fears and anxieties they cannot share amongst them. One night, when a heavy snow storm falls upon the city, Ben's family transcends its desires and individual crises, finally perceiving the complex network of emotion and feeling that may both keep them together or separate them permanently.
 

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DIRECTOR: Ang Lee
SCREENPLAY: James Schamus
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Frederick Elmes
EDITION: Tim Squyres
MUSIC: Mychael Danna
CAST: Kevin Klyne, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, Jamey Sheridan, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood
PRODUCER: Ted Hope, James Schamus, Ang Lee
FESTIVALS: Cannes
PRODUCTION: Good Machine, 417 Canal Street, 4th Floor - 10013 Nova York
Tel.: 001 212 343-9230 Fax: 001 212 343-9645
WORLD SALES: Studio Canal +, 17 rue Durmont d'Urville - 75116 Paris
Tel.: 00 33 1 4610-1200 Fax: 00 33 1 4610-1208
ORIGINAL TITLE: Ice Storm
   Col., 102 min., 1997

Ang Lee

Ang Lee was born in Taiwan in 1954. He studied theater in his country before moving to the United States in 1978 where he continued his studies in drama at the University of Illinois and in the University of New York.

He made his first feature in 1992, Pushing Hands, selection for the Sixteenth São Paulo International Film Festival. One year later he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival for The Wedding Banquet. In 1994 he presented Eat Drink Man Woman in Cannes, later indicated for an Oscar and for the Gold Globe for Best Foreign Film. In 1995, he made Sense and Sensibility that earned Emma Thompson an Oscar for Best Script.