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    The Lover
    a.k.a. L'Amant, The Lover Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Cast: Jane March, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti

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    • DVD Release Date: 12/11/2001
    • Original Release: 1992
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 4,675

    Viewer Rating: (12 ratings)

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    Unrated Version: Contains 10 Minutes of Additional Footage Not Included in the Domestic Theatrical Release; Original Theatrical Trailer

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Selections
    1. Main Title/Facing Age [3:08]
    2. Sibling Rivalry [6:15]
    3. Passage to Saigon [7:51]
    4. A Seductive Stranger [8:29]
    5. Schoolgirls [2:15]
    6. Blossoming Sexuality [5:18]
    7. "The Bachelor's Room" [10:09]
    8. Melancholy Afterglow [6:51]
    9. No Future Together [9:12]
    10. "Love & Hate" [8:01]
    11. "Unacceptable Scandal" [11:08]
    12. An Heir to Prejudice [8:57]
    13. Pushing Love Away [8:30]
    14. An Awful Arrangement [3:59]
    15. A Lover Lost [5:38]
    16. Undying Love/Credits [9:27]

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    Editorial Reviews

    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. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

    Customer Reviews

    An Unforgettable love storyby Freyjaonline

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    October 25, 2008: The first time I saw this movie I was flicking through the cable channels and caught the tail end of it, but that 10 minutes was enough to have me hooked.
    So I spent nearly a month waiting for it to show again, so I could learn the name of it and to watch it from the beginning.
    This is the story of forbidden love, love lost, love abused and love unrecognized.
    The story is narrated by the main character, with no names given to the characters to distract from the story's emotion.

    Really, The Lover?by Anonymous

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    April 20, 2007: I come from French ancestry, but I still can't tell whether this film is about love or sex or both. Jean-Jacques Annaud is known for his intermingling of themes all at one time. One thing that reviewers forgot to mention in this "beautiful love story" was that Jane March servilely raped by her Chinese lover. Annaud is pointing out that cultures when they meet can have vicious results, I believe and as the film proceeds it doesn't have a happy ending.


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