The Lover poster
Screenplay Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud
Director Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Lover

Original Title: L'Amant

Tagline: She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.

Release Date: 1992-01-22

Duration: 115 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Jane March
    The Young Girl
  • Jeanne Moreau
    Narrator
  • Tony Leung Ka-fai
    The Chinaman
  • Lisa Faulkner
    Helene Lagonelle
  • Hélène Patarot
    The Assistant Mistress
  • Frédérique Meininger
    The Mother
  • Melvil Poupaud
    The Younger Brother
  • Philippe Le Dem
    The French Teacher
  • Arnaud Giovaninetti
    The Elder Brother
  • Espérance Pham Thai Lan
    Femme