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1992 · 1 hr 56 min. R. Romance · Drama. The forbidden and risky romance between a French teenager and a wealthy, older Chinese man in 1929 French Indochina has the power to ruin their lives.
The Lover ( French: L'Amant) is a 1992 erotic romantic drama film produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras, the film details the illicit affair between a teenage French girl and a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Indochina.
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
The two begin a secretive and taboo affair in which he eventually pays her to become his lover. The themes of the movie explore love, class, race, and gender. The girl is trapped between two worlds, one of poverty and one of endless possibilities, represented by the man she falls in love with.
Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager (Jane March) meets a handsome Chinese playboy (Tony Leung Ka Fai) from a...
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Oct 30, 1992 · Marguerite Duras' novel The Lover tells the story of a passionate, secret sexual adventure between a young French girl and an older Chinese man in Indochina in the 1920s. She says it is autobiographical, but I suspect it is the autobiography of her imagination, not of her real life.
Oct 29, 1992 · 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.
