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“She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.”
The Lover (1992)
January 22, 19921h 55mFR
7.0
751 votes
Overview
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Director
Jean-Jacques AnnaudWhere to Watch
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Status
Released
Original Language
Mandarin
Budget
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Revenue
$5.0M
Production Companies
Timothy Burrill ProductionsRenn ProductionsGrai Phang Film StudioFilms A2
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CinemaSerf
6.0A wealthy man (Tony Leung) is travelling on a ferry when he encounters a pretty young woman (Jane March). It doesn't take long before they are having a fairly torrid affair, but things are difficult. He is older and a Chinese citizen, she a French girl in what was then French Indo-China. She is also a bit of a gold-digger and quite aware that if she plays her cards right, he can offer her a new, more prosperous, life than that she shares with her mother (Fréderique Meininger) and two brothers. The older brother (Arnaud Giovaninetti) is a bit puritanical when it comes to his sister, her younger…
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