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The Lover
She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.
She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she coul...
Drama, Romance - 1992
6.9
32%
59
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.

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
115 min
Release date:
22 Jan 1992
Country:
FR, GB, VN
Languages:
Chinese, English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$5,013,090
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 7 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Never mind that in portraying passion, the two seem to be demonstrating the proper use of the Salad Shooter.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Annaud and his collaborators have got all of the physical details just right, but there is a failure of the imagination here; we do not sense the presence of real people behind the attractive facades of the two main actors.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Scratch away the steamy, evocative surface, remove Jeanne Moreau's veteran-voiced narration, and you have only art-film banalities.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
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