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The Lover
Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager (Jane March) embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a handsome Chinese playboy (Tony Leung Ka Fai), each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
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19 February 1972, Merton, London, England, UK
3 July 1967, France
23 January 1928, Paris, France
21 April 1945, France
January 01, 2000
The worst part of the dialog is given to the writer. She has to say one pedantic line after another, and overall, the narrator's part is just too wordy.
January 24, 2007
Too bad that the film is marred by the vices of international productions, as it deals with issues seldom shown in American movies, such as the power of sexuality.
January 01, 2000
Scratch away the steamy, evocative surface, remove Jeanne Moreau's veteran-voiced narration, and you have only art-film banalities.
January 01, 2000
Never mind that in portraying passion, the two seem to be demonstrating the proper use of the Salad Shooter.
March 14, 2003
Stylish if somewhat tedious study of a young Vietnamese woman who falls under the spell of an older dandy.
January 01, 2000
Annaud and his collaborators have got all of the physical details just right, but there is a failure of the imagination here; we do not sense the presence of real people behind the attractive facades of the two main actors.
January 01, 2000
The only moderately interesting scene here is a traditional Chinese wedding toward the end, which, of course, is cut short.