Critics said he hadn't been contrite enough in the first half of the interview, which was taped Monday in Austin, but Armstrong seemed to lose his composure when Winfrey zeroed in on the emotionaldrama involving his personal life.
The director Zhang Yimou returns to the allegorical drama in this simple but at times trenchantly emotional tale of Takada (the excellent Ken Takakura), a widowed Japanese fisherman.
But it is the people Nathaniel Kahn finds, the things they say, and the sensitivity and drama of the architectural photography that make this film so richly evocative, its emotional impact matched by its visual beauty.