The Lover

About The Lover

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.

The Lover (1992) is a romance film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. At 115 minutes long, it arrived in January 1992.

Jane March takes the lead as The Young Girl, Tony Leung Ka-fai as The Chinaman, Frédérique Meininger as The Mother, and Arnaud Giovaninetti as The Elder Brother. Written by Gérard Brach and Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is adapted from a novel.

Members will find affectation, 1920s, older man younger woman relationship, and virgin in it. American members can watch it on OVID.

Lolita and Women in Love make useful companions to The Lover, all filed under desire, love, and lust. It scores 7.0 out of 10 from 783 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.