The Lover

movie

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 & crew

Tony Leung Ka-fai · Arnaud Giovaninetti · Philippe Le Dem · Ann Schaufuss · Xiem Mang · Jean-Jacques Annaud · Marguerite Duras · Frédérique Meininger · Melvil Poupaud · Lisa Faulkner · Jeanne Moreau · Gérard Brach · Jane March

Studios & networks

Films A2 · Grai Phang Film Studio · Renn Productions · Timothy Burrill Productions