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The Lover

“She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.”

Director
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Year
1992
Runtime
1h 55m
Rated
R
Release
1992
Language
fr
Country
FR

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01 · Overview

What it’s about

The story

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir 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.

  • #ho chi minh
  • #sex with a minor
  • #age difference
  • #desire
  • #saigon
  • #french girl
  • #older man younger woman relationship
  • #indochina
  • #love
  • #vietnam
  • #based on novel or book
  • #1920s

  • Directed by

    Jean-Jacques Annaud

  • Written by

    Gérard Brach & Jean-Jacques Annaud

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