Though marred by all the vices of international productions (different acting styles and accents), it's worth seeing since it deals with issues seldom shown with such honesty, such as the power of sexuality placed against an intriguing political context.
The Lover (1992)
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Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 5
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Indochina, 1929. On a ferry a 27-year-old Chinese man spots an alluring but poor French teenager. They soon begin a forbidden but fiercely passionate romance. While the man truly loves the girl,... Indochina, 1929. On a ferry a 27-year-old Chinese man spots an alluring but poor French teenager. They soon begin a forbidden but fiercely passionate romance. While the man truly loves the girl, she remains aloof, for her involvement with him is more out of rebellion towards her family -- and for sexual excitement -- rather than love. However when the gentleman is forced to marry a woman chosen by his parents, the young girl realizes she may have lost the true love of her life... [More]
Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti
Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner, Xiem Mang, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Reviews for The Lover
Stylish if somewhat tedious study of a young Vietnamese woman who falls under the spell of an older dandy.
The only moderately interesting scene here is a traditional Chinese wedding toward the end, which, of course, is cut short.
Scratch away the steamy, evocative surface, remove Jeanne Moreau's veteran-voiced narration, and you have only art-film banalities.
Never mind that in portraying passion, the two seem to be demonstrating the proper use of the Salad Shooter.
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.
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.
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