Product Details

• Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti
• Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Format: NTSC, Import, Dolby, Widescreen
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• ASIN: B001I9325W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,583 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Synopsis: The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese aristocrat. They look at each and they both see a blinding white flash; it's kismet. He offers her a ride in his limousine and soon they meet in his "bachelor room" where they revel in a wide variety of creative sexual encounters. However, they both realize their love is doomed. She comes from a troubled family that includes a mentally-disturbed mother (Frederique Meininger) and drug-addicted brother (Arnaud Giovaninetti). It also appears that her family would not approve of an interracial tryst. But then neither would his family, since in order to inherit his father's wealth, he must not break from a traditional Chinese arranged marriage. - Based on the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, an erotic and sensitive story of a young French school girl who embarks on a torrid love affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Colonial Vietnam. Consumed by desire, they cling to each other, even though fate and society dictates that they may never wed. Academy Award Nominations: Best Cinematography. Sinopsis Durante los años 20, en un barco que atraviesa el río Mekong, una adolescente francesa conoce a un importante diplomático de la Indochina colonial y queda fascinada por su riqueza y su elegancia. Entre ellos nace un amor obsesivo y desenfrenado, pero la hostilidad familiar y las diferencias culturales impedirán que se prosiga esta pasión carnal.