The Lover
- Drama
- Romance
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.
- Directed by
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Written by
- Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Based on
- Marguerite Duras
Cast
- Jane March
Tony Leung Ka-fai- Frédérique Meininger
- Arnaud Giovaninetti
- Melvil Poupaud
- Lisa Faulkner
- Jeanne Moreau
- Xiem Mang
- Philippe Le Dem
- Ann Schaufuss
- Tania Torrens
- Espérance Pham Thai Lan
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- love
- affectation
- arranged marriage
- 1920s
- adoring
- virgin
- desire
- loss of virginity
- age difference
- lust
- lover
- sexual awakening
- vietnam
- older man younger woman relationship
- sex with a minor
- sexual attraction
- erotic romance
- southeast asia
- saigon
- lolita
- indochina
- french girl
- chinese man
- illicit affair
- ho chi minh
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