The Lover
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| Directed by | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Produced by | Claude Berri |
| Written by | Marguerite Duras (novel), Jean-Jacques Annaud, Gérard Brach |
| Starring | Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jane March, Arnaud Giovaninetti |
| Cinematography | Robert Fraisse |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) |  22 January 1992 |
| Running time | 115 min |
| Language | English |
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The Lover (French title: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated to 43 languages. It was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt.
The Lover is also a 1992 movie based on this novel, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Jane March and Tony Leung Ka Fai. The cast also included Lisa Faulkner. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography
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[edit] Plot summary
This summary is for the 1992 film.
Set in 1929 French Colonial Vietnam, a teenage Caucasian French girl (Duras) starts an affair with a Chinese man from a wealthy family to escape her lonely existence in boarding school. In private, their relationship is physically and emotionally fulfilling. Due to the social and racial mores of the age, in public they have to play the roles of concubine and sugar daddy. When the man is forced to take a Chinese bride by his family, the girl decides to emigrate back to France.
The film is noted for several sexually explicit scenes. When the film opened, it gained notoriety for the under-aged protagonist, and it has also been alleged that the sex scene in the film was unsimulated. This was not immediately denied by the filmmakers for publicity reasons.
[edit] Trivia
- Duras' real life Chinese lover was named Lee. The last she heard of him, he became a born again Christian and loved his family very much. He died and was buried in the same city within Vietnam where Duras first met him.
- Duras' was only 15 when her love affair took place, which is the age of the heroine in the novel and the film.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Lover at the Internet Movie Database
