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The Lover

1992 · 115 min

A languid, humid affair of glances and skin, beautiful and sad, drifting toward a quiet heartbreak you feel coming.

Genres
Drama, Romance
Tagline
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.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • identity
  • class
  • race
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance8
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Written by
Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring
Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner, Jeanne Moreau, Xiem Mang
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
115 min
Country
France, United Kingdom, Vietnam
Languages
Mandarin, English

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