The Lover
(1992)
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 Annaud
Writers
Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Marguerite Duras
Top Billed
Jane March
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⭐ 6/10January 5, 2024
A 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… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Budget
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Revenue
$5,013,090