Ride with the devil
Ang Lee got along well with Jane Austen (Sense and sensibility) and 1970s America (The ice storm). However, the Taiwanese director overplays his hand with Ride with the devil, an ambitious historical drama set in the turbulent times of the American civil war, which does not live up to the promise made in the title.
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