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The Lover

1992, Movie, R, 110 mins

The Lover: Review

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Jean-Jacques Annaud's film version of Marguerite Duras's evocative, beautifully imagined novel is a soft-core porno hash with pretensions to high art. Annaud focuses on The Lover's most accessible aspects--"hot" sex scenes, the scenic pictorialism of 1930s Saigon, an overall ambiance of flushed exotica--and wholly misses the poetry, fatalism and brilliant economy which made Duras's prose as haunting as a recurring dream. While on a ferry crossing the Mekong River, a fifteen... read more leave a comment

The Lover: Cast & Details

Year: 1992
Rated R
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Cast
 Jane March: Young Marguerite Duras
Tony Leung Kar-fai: Chinese Man
Frederique Meininger: Mother
Arnaud Giovaninetti: Pierre, Elder Brother
Melvil Poupaud: Paul, Younger Brother
Lisa Faulkner: Helene Lagonelle

 

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