The Lover

Overview

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.

Cast

Jane March

The Young Girl

Tony Leung Ka-fai

The Chinaman

Frédérique Meininger

The Mother

Arnaud Giovaninetti

The Elder Brother

Melvil Poupaud

The Younger Brother

L

Lisa Faulkner

Helene Lagonelle

Jeanne Moreau

Narrator (voice)

X

Xiem Mang

The Chinaman's Father

Philippe Le Dem

The French Teacher

A

Ann Schaufuss

Anne-Marie Stretter

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