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The Lover

Release Date:October 29, 1992

Running Time:115 min

Genres:Drama, Romance

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Cast

Jane March Tony Leung Ka-fai Frédérique Meininger Arnaud Giovaninetti Melvil Poupaud Lisa Faulkner Jeanne Moreau Xiem Mang Philippe Le Dem Ann Schaufuss Tania Torrens Espérance Pham Thai Lan

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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.

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