The Lover
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.
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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
- Lisa Faulkner — Helene Lagonelle
- Jeanne Moreau — Narrator (voice)
- Xiem Mang — The Chinaman's Father
- Philippe Le Dem — The French Teacher
- Ann Schaufuss — Anne-Marie Stretter
- Tania Torrens — The Principal
- Espérance Pham Thai Lan — Femme