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The Lover

(1992)

January 22, 1992 1h 55m
70%
TMDB Score

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.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Director

Top Billed Cast

JM

Jane March

The Young Girl

TLK

Tony Leung Ka-fai

The Chinaman

FM

Frédérique Meininger

The Mother

AG

Arnaud Giovaninetti

The Elder Brother

MP

Melvil Poupaud

The Younger Brother

LF

Lisa Faulkner

Helene Lagonelle

JM

Jeanne Moreau

Narrator (voice)

XM

Xiem Mang

The Chinaman's Father

PLD

Philippe Le Dem

The French Teacher

AS

Ann Schaufuss

Anne-Marie Stretter

Official Trailer