L' Amant (The Lover) (1992)

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Based on the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras

French actress Jeanne Moreau narrates as author Marguerite Duras.

Indochina, 1929. On a ferry a 27-year-old Chinese man spots an alluring but poor French teenager. They soon begin a forbidden but fiercely passionate romance. While the man truly loves the girl, she remains aloof, for her involvement with him is more out of rebellion towards her family -- and for sexual excitement -- rather than love. However when the gentleman is forced to marry a woman chosen by his parents, the young girl realizes she may have lost the true love of her life...

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From the novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras, 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" (Critics' 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 that French colonial Vietnamese society will never allow. (Amazon)

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Cast:
Jane March (The Young Girl), Tony Leung Ka Fai (The Chinaman), Frédérique Meininger (The Mother), Arnaud Giovaninetti (The Elder Brother)...

More info:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/








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