Jane March

Tony Leung Ka-fai

Frédérique Meininger

Arnaud Giovaninetti

Melvil Poupaud

Lisa Faulkner

Jeanne Moreau

Xiem Mang

Philippe Le Dem

Ann Schaufuss

Tania Torrens

Espérance Pham Thai Lan

Hélène Patarot

Yvonne Wingerter

Raymonde Heudeline

Quach Van An

Do Minh Vien

Frédéric Auburtin

Alido H. Gaudencio

Vu Dinh Thi

Truong Thu

Thi Cam Thuy Nguyen

Lu Van Trang

Vu Kim Trong

Claude Berri

Gérard Brach

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Robert Fraisse

Marguerite Duras

Gabriel Yared

Noëlle Boisson

Mat Troi Day

Timothy Burrill

Hoang Thanh At

Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle

Olivier Radot

Jacques Tronel

Jennifer Patrick

Drama

Romance

L'Amant

Timothy Burrill Productions

Renn Productions

Grai Phang Film Studio

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The Lover

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A wealthy man (Tony Leung) is travelling on a ferry when he encounters a pretty young woman (Jane March). It doesn't take long before they are having a fairly torrid affair, but things are difficult. He is older and a Chinese citizen, she a French girl in what was then French Indo-China. She is also a bit of a gold-digger and quite aware that if she plays her cards right, he can offer her a new, more prosperous, life than that she shares with her mother (Fréderique Meininger) and two brothers. The older brother (Arnaud Giovaninetti) is a bit puritanical when it comes to his sister, her younger (Melvil Poupaud) is more shy and usually content to keep his head down and play his piano. Despite the initially venal nature of her relationship, there gradually develops a bond that is both loving and turbulent as the political situation overtakes their love, with the French leaving Vietnam to local government. This is a well scored and stunning looking film but the story is remarkably thin and repetitive and once we've seen them have sex a few times, I began to wonder if Jean-Jacques Annaud was just a bit bereft of ideas as to how to develop either character beyond the physical or material. It's a slow burn and I'm afraid that I just didn't really engage with either as the story trundled along, narrated occasionally and rather melodramatically by Jeanne Moreau, to a conclusion that was quite a long time coming and not really worth the wait. It's watchable, and illustrates well the gap between rich and poor here in the 1920s, but is very much an example of style over substance.

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