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The Lover

Original title: L'Amant

She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.

1992 · R · 1h 55m

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

7.0

TMDB audience score
792 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Jane March
    The Young Girl

  • Tony Leung Ka-fai
    The Chinaman

  • Frédérique Meininger
    The Mother

  • Arnaud Giovaninetti
    The Elder Brother

  • Melvil Poupaud
    The Younger Brother

  • Lisa Faulkner
    Helene Lagonelle

  • Jeanne Moreau
    Narrator (voice)

  • Xiem Mang
    The Chinaman's Father

  • Philippe Le Dem
    The French Teacher

  • Ann Schaufuss
    Anne-Marie Stretter

  • Tania Torrens
    The Principal

  • Espérance Pham Thai Lan
    Femme

  • Hélène Patarot
    The Assistant Mistress

  • Yvonne Wingerter
    The Writer (beginning)

  • Raymonde Heudeline
    The Writer (end)

  • Quach Van An
    The Driver

  • Do Minh Vien
    The Young Boy

  • Frédéric Auburtin
    Liner Pianist