The Lover (1992)

Synopsis

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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Cast

• Jane March as The Young Girl
• Tony Leung Ka-fai as The Chinaman
• Frédérique Meininger as The Mother
• Arnaud Giovaninetti as The Elder Brother
• Melvil Poupaud as The Younger Brother
• Lisa Faulkner as Helene Lagonelle
• Jeanne Moreau as Narrator (voice)
• Xiem Mang as The Chinaman's Father
• Philippe Le Dem as The French Teacher
• Ann Schaufuss as Anne-Marie Stretter

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