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The Lover
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.
1992 · Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud · 115 min · Drama · Romance · 41 frames
Tagline
She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.
Crew
- Screenplay: Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Cinematography: Robert Fraisse
- Edited by: Noëlle Boisson
- Music: Gabriel Yared
- Production design: Hoang Thanh At
- Produced by: Claude Berri
Cast
- Jane March as The Young Girl
- Tony Leung Ka-fai as The Chinaman
- Frédérique Meininger as The Mother
- Arnaud Giovaninetti as The Elder Brother
- Melvil Poupaud as The Younger Brother
- Lisa Faulkner as Helene Lagonelle
- Jeanne Moreau as Narrator (voice)
- Xiem Mang as The Chinaman's Father
- Philippe Le Dem as The French Teacher
- Ann Schaufuss as Anne-Marie Stretter
Production
- Country: France, United Kingdom, Vietnam
- Language: Mandarin, English
- Studios: Timothy Burrill Productions, Renn Productions, Grai Phang Film Studio, Films A2
- Box office: $5,013,090
- Themes: lolita, virgin, vietnam, based on novel or book, age difference, arranged marriage, lover, affectation, saigon, indochina
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