The Lover
(1992)
★ 7 IMDb · 778 votes
Year: 1992
Runtime: 115 мин
Country: France, United Kingdom
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jane March, Тони Люн Ка-Фай, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner, Жанна Моро, Xiem Mang, Philippe Le Dem, Ann Schaufuss
Plot
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.
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 Marguerite Duras.