The Lover
by Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Actor: Arnaud Giovaninetti, Fr?d?rique Meininger, Jane March, Melvil Poupaud, Tony Leung Ka FaiDirector: Jean-Jacques Annaud
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Lover
Movie Review: A Beautiful and Sensual Experience in Forbidden Love.
Summary: 4 Stars
Set in 1929 colonial Vietnam, and based on the memoir by French novelist Marguerite Duras (The Lover), which chronicles a romance between Duras and her Chinese lover, Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1992 film examines the clandestine relationship between a 15-year-old daughter (Jane March) of a bankrupt French family and her 27-year-old wealthy lover (Tony Leung Ka-Fai). She becomes his lover until an arranged marriage forces him to a choose between family tradition and his love for the girl. Much like the far superior Hiroshima Mon Amour (based on a Duras novel as well) , The Lover is a beautiful and sensual experience in forbidden love. While it lacks the poetic imagination of Resnais's 1959 masterpiece, it nevertheless aspires to be viewed as a serious work, and it occasionally succeeds.
G. Merritt
Summary of The Lover
From the novel of the same namewhich has sold over one million copies in 43 languagesthis "sophisticated adaptation of Marguerite Duras' best-selling memoirs" (Variety) smolders on the screen. "Masterfully acted and beautifully photographed" (Critics' Choice), The Lover brilliantly captures the essence of sexual awakening and forbidden desire like no other film has donebeforeor since. Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor French teenager who engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir (Tony Leung) 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. But though the lovers are able to transcend their differences in age, race and class'theirs is a future that French colonial Vietnamese society will never allow.Lovely to look at, this story reveals little more than the characters' nude bodies. Like couples whose only attraction is physical, this has little to offer once it leaves the bedroom. We never learn the interests or inner workings of the lovers in question. They become nothing more than attractive bodies, which makes this little more than a shallow exercise in sexuality. The story is based on the controversial, and supposedly autobiographical, bestseller by experimental French novelist Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a young French schoolgirl who becomes sexually involved with a sophisticated, older Asian man. Set in Indochina in the late 1920s, this is stunningly photographed and artfully directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. That said, the lack of a more satisfying plot means this is merely tastefully produced soft porn. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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