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The Lover
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Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager (Jane March) embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a handsome Chinese playboy (Tony Leung Ka Fai), each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager (Jane March) embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a handsome Chinese playboy (Tony Leung Ka Fai), each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Actors:
Jeanne Moreau,
Vu Dinh Thi,
Frédéric Auburtin,
Vu Kim Trong,
Hélène Patarot,
Tania Torrens,
Philippe Le Dem
Jeanne Moreau
23 January 1928, Paris, France
Vu Dinh Thi
Frédéric Auburtin
4 June 1962, Marseille, France
Vu Kim Trong
Hélène Patarot
Tania Torrens
21 April 1945, France
Philippe Le Dem
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Frédérique Meininger #Jane March #Jean-Jacques Annaud #The Lover (1992 #Tony Ka Fai Leung
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January 01, 2000
Never mind that in portraying passion, the two seem to be demonstrating the proper use of the Salad Shooter.January 24, 2007
Too bad that the film is marred by the vices of international productions, as it deals with issues seldom shown in American movies, such as the power of sexuality.January 01, 2000
The only moderately interesting scene here is a traditional Chinese wedding toward the end, which, of course, is cut short.January 01, 2000
Annaud and his collaborators have got all of the physical details just right, but there is a failure of the imagination here; we do not sense the presence of real people behind the attractive facades of the two main actors.
Denton Record-Chronicle
March 14, 2003
Stylish if somewhat tedious study of a young Vietnamese woman who falls under the spell of an older dandy.January 01, 2000
Scratch away the steamy, evocative surface, remove Jeanne Moreau's veteran-voiced narration, and you have only art-film banalities.January 01, 2000
The worst part of the dialog is given to the writer. She has to say one pedantic line after another, and overall, the narrator's part is just too wordy.