The Lover
From the novel of the same name - which has sold over one million copies in 43 languages - this “sophisticated adaptation of Marguerite Duras' best-selling memoirs” (Variety) smolders on the screen. “Masterfully acted and beautifully photographed” (Critic's Choice), The Lover brilliantly captures the essence of sexual awakening and, forbidden desire like no other film has done before - or since.
Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor French teenager who engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir (Tony Leung) 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. But though the lovers are able to transcend their differences in age, race and class . . . theirs is a future the French colonial Vietnamese society will never allow.
Cinema Facts: based on the autobiographical novel by French author Marguerite Duras, whose youthful real-life romance with a Chinese man in colonial Vietnam caused a scandal.
• The Lover is set in 1929, when Vietnam was still a French
colony.
• The Lover is the first foreign film ever shot on location in
Vietnam, though two more French productions quickly followed.
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Movie Data |
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Cast |
Jane March, Tony Leung, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud |
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Genre |
Drama |
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Language |
English |
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Running Time |
115min / color |
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Not rated |
NR - some Nudity |
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Year and Screen |
2007 (Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85) |
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Quality
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DVD
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- 3,794,208Kb
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Quantity: |
SLC (2), wmv, (L) |