Directed by:
Jean-Jacques AnnaudCinematography:
Robert FraisseComposer:
Gabriel YaredCast:
Jane March, Tony Leung, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner, Philippe Le Dem, Hélène Patarot, Jeanne Moreau (more)VOD (3)
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Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor French teenager who engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir (Tony Leung) 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. But though the lovers are able to transcend their differences in age, race and class'theirs is a future that French colonial Vietnamese society will never allow. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jane March
UK
Best movies:
The Lover (1992)
Will (2011)
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) (TV movie)
Tony Leung
Hong Kong
Best movies:
She Shoots Straight (1990)
New Dragon Gate Inn (1992)
God of Gamblers Return (1994)
Frédérique Meininger
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
Flic Story (1975)
Life and Nothing But (1989)
Arnaud Giovaninetti
France
Best movies:
The Lover (1992)
The Children of the Century (1999)
Maigret (1991) (series)
Melvil Poupaud
France
Best movies:
Laurence Anyways (2012)
An Officer and a Spy (2019)
A Tale of Summer (1996)
Lisa Faulkner
UK
Best movies:
Le Péril jeune (1994)
The Lover (1992)
Philippe Le Dem
Best movies:
Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy Number 1 (2008)
The Lover (1992)
The Butterfly (2002)
Hélène Patarot
Best movies:
The Mahabharata (1989) (series)
The Lover (1992)
Paris Je T'Aime (2006)
Jeanne Moreau
France
Best movies:
The Carmelites (1960)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Evidence in Concrete (1958)
Frédéric Auburtin
France
Best movies:
The Lover (1992)
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)