The Lover (1992) ( L'Amant )

The Lover (1992) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: L'Amant
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
Vietnam ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Written By:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Gérard Brach

Actors:
Jane March ..... The Young Girl
Tony Leung ..... The Chinaman
Frédérique Meininger ..... The Mother
Arnaud Giovaninetti ..... The Elder Brother
Melvil Poupaud ..... The Younger Brother
Lisa Faulkner ..... Helene Lagonelle
Xiem Mang ..... The Chinaman's Father
Philippe Le Dem ..... The French Teacher
Ann Schaufuss ..... Anne-Marie Stretter
Quach Van An ..... The Driver
Tania Torrens ..... The Principal
Raymonde Heudeline ..... The Writer (end)
Yvonne Wingerter ..... The Writer (beginning)
Do Minh Vien ..... The Young Boy
Hélène Patarot ..... The Assistant Mistress

Synopsis:

The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese aristocrat. They look at each and they both see a blinding white flash; it's kismet. He offers her a ride in his limousine and soon they meet in his 'bachelor room' where they revel in a wide variety of creative sexual encounters. However, they both realize their love is doomed. She comes from a troubled family that includes a mentally-disturbed mother (Frederique Meininger) and drug-addicted brother (Arnaud Giovaninetti). It also appears that her family would not approve of an interracial tryst. But then neither would his family, since in order to inherit his father's wealth, he must not break from a traditional Chinese arranged marriage.

It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of that time? Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Maugerite Duras.

In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.

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