The Lover(1992)

🎬115 min
📅1992-01-22
🎭Drama, Romance
7.0/10

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.

Production

Timothy Burrill Productions, Renn Productions, Grai Phang Film Studio, Films A2

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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
Xiem Mang
as The Chinaman's Father
Philippe Le Dem
as The French Teacher
Ann Schaufuss
as Anne-Marie Stretter