The Lover
1992Original title: L'Amant
“She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.”
1h 55mDramaRomance
3.5
793 ratingsThe story
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
- Languages
- Mandarin, English
- Cast
- Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner, Jeanne Moreau, Xiem Mang, Philippe Le Dem, Ann Schaufuss