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09/07/04
The Lover (1992)
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Reviews Counted:3
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Rotten:3
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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,... [More]
Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Top CriticScratch away the steamy, evocative surface, remove Jeanne Moreau's veteran-voiced narration, and you have only art-film banalities.
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Top CriticNever mind that in portraying passion, the two seem to be demonstrating the proper use of the Salad Shooter.
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Top CriticAnnaud 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.
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