R1h 55m1992

The Lover

L'Amant

“She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.”

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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.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writers: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud
Language: French
Country: France, United Kingdom, Vietnam
Release date: 22 January 1992
Box office: $5,013,090

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