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7.4
/10
2,000 Ratings

THE LOVER

L'amant

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
France, United Kingdom, 1992
Drama, Romance, Erotica
  • 111111 minutes

Synopsis

A woman writes her reminiscences of a love affair she had as a young girl in 1929 French Indochina. As a French teenage girl she began a taboo, forbidden romance with a wealthy Chinese man twice her age, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.

Synopsis

A woman writes her reminiscences of a love affair she had as a young girl in 1929 French Indochina. As a French teenage girl she began a taboo, forbidden romance with a wealthy Chinese man twice her age, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.