The Taiwanese director, since more than a decade active in United States, has with films such as
Sense and Sensibility,
The Ice Storm,
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
Brokeback mountain (for which he recently was premiered an Academy award for best direction) joined one of contemporary Hollywood's most important filmmakers. To the same newspaper Lee describes Bergman's
The Virgin Spring as his first artistic experience of cinema: "I fell silent, I was paralyzed, electrified. I refused to leave the theatre before a second screening. And after that my life was changed. I had never seen anything so low-voiced, but yet so violent." And on: "So Bergman put a high standard to me from the beginning. I thank him for that!" says Lee and mentions
Persona and
Wild Strawberries as other Bergman favourites.
