The Lover
1NomDirected by Jean-Jacques Annaud
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.
Awards
Details
- Released
- 22 January 1992
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Director
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Writers
- Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Box office
- $5,013,090
- Countries
- France, United Kingdom, Vietnam
- Languages
- Mandarin, English
- Production
- Timothy Burrill Productions, Renn Productions, Grai Phang Film Studio, Films A2
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Cast
Jane March
Tony Leung Ka-fai
Frédérique Meininger
Arnaud Giovaninetti
Melvil Poupaud- LLisa Faulkner
Jeanne Moreau- XXiem Mang
Philippe Le Dem- AAnn Schaufuss