Jan 22, 1992
115 min
Full-HD

The Lover (1992)

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.

Category

Drama Romance

Country

France United Kingdom Vietnam

Companies

Timothy Burrill Productions Renn Productions Grai Phang Film Studio Films A2

Jane March

The Young Girl

Tony Leung Ka-fai

The Chinaman

Frédérique Meininger

The Mother

Arnaud Giovaninetti

The Elder Brother

Melvil Poupaud

The Younger Brother

Lisa Faulkner

Helene Lagonelle

Jeanne Moreau

Narrator

Xiem Mang

The Chinaman's Father

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