The Lover

The Lover (1992)

L'Amant

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

1992·1h 55m·FR
DramaRomance
iRank56iRank Score
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IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes28%
Metacritic59%
TMDb7/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Language: French

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About The Lover

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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