The Lover

• 7.0 Drama
• 1992-01-22
• 115 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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

Director:

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Writer:

Gérard Brach Jean-Jacques Annaud