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The Lover(1992)
Status: Released
Date: 1992-01-22
70%
699 Votes
Time: 1h 55m
She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.
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.
Languages: Mandarin, English.
Countries:
France,
United Kingdom,
Vietnam
Revenue: $5,013,090.00
ProductionCompanies:
Timothy Burrill Productions
Renn Productions
Grai Phang Film Studio
Films A2
Movie: The Lover
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jane March
The Young Girl
梁家輝
The Chinaman
Frédérique Meininger
The Mother
Arnaud Giovaninetti
The Elder Brother
Melvil Poupaud
The Younger Brother
Lisa Faulkner
Helene Lagonelle
Jeanne Moreau
Narrator
Philippe Le Dem
The French Teacher
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