The Lover

The Lover

  • Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • Writer: Marguerite Duras,Gérard Brach,Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • Countries of origin: France, United Kingdom, Vietnam
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: October 30, 1992
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo, LC-Concept Digital Sound
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: El amante
  • "L'amant" is a romance film directed by Jean Jacques Arnault and starring March and Tony Leung Ka Fai . The film was released in France on January 22, 1992.
    The film is adapted from the autobiographical novel of French writer Marguerite Duras. It tells a bleak and moving love story between a French girl and a Chinese girl in Saigon.

    Details

    • Release date October 30, 1992
    • Filming locations Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    • Production companies Films A2, Grai Phang Film Studio, Renn Productions

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $4,899,194

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $181,147

    Gross worldwide

    $5,013,090

    Movie reviews

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    • By Esmeralda 2022-08-01 12:29:32

      The Lover--Ambiguous Love of Girl and Grown M

      I watched this film for Duras' "The Lover". I can only say that the heroine should be a little rougher and the effect will be better. Duras' experience is unique and unfortunate in our eyes, but I always feel that without these experiences, her writing might not have a different flavor. Also, don't try to understand Duras. Without the same experience, we will never be able to fully understand....

    • By Haylie 2022-07-15 12:45:44

      The Lover--Ignorance Of Affection And Brave Love

      A childish woman, a deep man. She loves wildly, but she has never put her love in her heart; he loves silently, but she puts love in his heart for a lifetime.

      He loves forbearance; love is persistent.

      To say that he...

    • By Kobe 2022-07-06 14:23:13

      The Lover--First Love And Inner Hunger

      I'm talking about a girl your age, fifteen or sixteen, who will say goodbye to her lover. The whistle blared, and the ship slowly left the embankment. Her face was like a lake, and her heart began to cry. She saw the black car on the shore, and she knew that there were a pair of eyes looking at her in the back of the car. She was still in the position she had seen him for the first time, leaning against the railing and...

    • By Eugenia 2022-06-08 12:54:24

      The Lover--the Girl who Tasted the Forbidden Fruit

      Jean Yake Arnold, Director, Starring: Tony Leung, Jane March

      When the DVD of "The Lover" was found in the video store for the first time, he gave it to a very close friend. At that time, I was a little reluctant, but I was still happy. I hope she can also watch a good movie. Just because I thought the original was Duras at the time

    • By Jamarcus 2022-04-24 07:01:18

      The Lover

      This was supposed to be a literary film. Only love, only desire.

              The background of the film is that Vietnam is still a French colony.

              The youngest daughter of a destitute French family meets a wealthy Chinese boy. One is that there is no love at home, and the other is that he has lost enthusiasm for his own life. It is because of the lonely atmosphere that they are inexplicably attracted to each other in the crowd.

              Leung Ka Fai is a man with...

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    • By Clemmie 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      Duras felt that the heroine should be played by Isabella Adjani, who thought Jane March was too beautiful for the character. Old lady, if you let a big Chinese director come to film it, you probably won't be able to laugh. Thankfully Arnold didn't listen to...

    • By Ayden 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      "You have no idea how weak i am." How to say, I can understand such a story, but that's...

    • By Zackary 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      The decadent feudal ideology, prejudiced social concepts, and the disparity of status and status once again ruined a sincere and moving love. At the end, there is a kind of helpless sadness and regret. moving. This kind of weak, incompetent and sullen but in love with the rich second generation is really none other than Leung Ka Fai, and the heroine has an unforgettable...

    • By Clay 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      He sent me a paragraph from the original book today so I started watching the movie and it turned into a pure love story and we were concerned with an individual's...

    • By Isac 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      A well-established French literary and artistic love film, whether the screenwriter or the actor can suffocate a...

    Movie plot

    In 1929, Vietnam was a French colony, so there were many French on the land of Vietnam. Jane ( Jane Maggie ) is a 17-year-old French girl who studies in Saigon Girls' Boarding School. Whenever I go home easily during the holidays, my mother runs a very small school with very little income. Jane has two older brothers. The older brother Bill is addicted to drugs and domineering. The second brother Paul is cowardly by nature and is often...
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    Background creation

    In the spring of 1987, Americans wanted to buy the rights to film "L'amant" at a low price. Producer Claude Berry decided to let his company buy it. Margaret wanted to be a director, but Berry was noncommittal. While Marguerite was making the adaptation, Berry contacted Jean-Jacques Arnault and asked him to be the director. Arnold initially dodged it and later accepted it. He wrote his script based on the novel. What he wanted to...
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    Evaluation action

    The film is adapted from the autobiographical novel of French female writer Marguerite Duras. It became a sensation for Hong Kong star Tony Leung Ka Fai and teenage star Jane Margie in their bold sex scenes. The plot of the whole film is not out of the clichés of romantic films. What is worth admiring is the nostalgic and romantic sentiment, the pictures are beautiful, and the erotic scenes between men and women are also filmed with a...
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    Movie quotes

    • The Chinaman: My body no longer wants the one who does not love.

    • [first lines]

      Narrator: Very early in my life, it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. At eighteen I aged. This aging was brutal. This aging, I saw it spread over my features, one by one. Instead of being frightened by it, I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of interest I might have taken for example in the reading of a book. That new face I kept it. It's kept the same contours, but its matter is destroyed. I have a destroyed face. Let me tell you again: I'm fifteen and a half. It's the crossing of a ferry on the Mekong.

    • [last lines]

      Narrator: Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, the books, he had come to Paris with his wife. He had phoned her. He was intimidated; his voice trembled, and with the trembling it had found the accent of China again. He knew she'd begun writing books. He had also heard about the younger brother's death. He had been sad for her. And then he had no more to tell her. And then he told her - he had told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her until his death.