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The Lover (1992)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
“She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.”
Drama, Romance · 1h 55m
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.
Cast
Jane March
The Young Girl
Tony Leung Ka-fai
The Chinaman
Frédérique Meininger
The Mother
Arnaud Giovaninetti
The Elder Brother
Melvil Poupaud
The Younger Brother
L
Lisa Faulkner
Helene Lagonelle
Jeanne Moreau
Narrator (voice)
X
Xiem Mang
The Chinaman's Father
Philippe Le Dem
The French Teacher
A
Ann Schaufuss
Anne-Marie Stretter
Tania Torrens
The Principal
Espérance Pham Thai Lan
Femme
Crew
- Director
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Screenplay
- Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Novel
- Marguerite Duras
- Director of Photography
- Robert Fraisse
- Original Music Composer
- Gabriel Yared
- Editor
- Noëlle Boisson
- Producer
- Claude Berri
Details
- Original title
- L'Amant
- Release date
- 1992-01-22
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, English
- Countries
- France, United Kingdom, Vietnam
- Production
- Timothy Burrill Productions, Renn Productions, Grai Phang Film Studio, Films A2
- Box office
- $5,013,090