Arnaud Giovaninetti, Fr?d?rique Meininger, Frédérique Meininger
DVD Release Date: December 11, 2001
Stats: 535 reviews
Another great Annaud oeuvre. I love the book and this film was very faithful to Marguerite Duras's wonderful, evocative narration. I was very skeptical because so much of Duras's sad, beautiful work is often too abstract, contradictory, ambiguous, and yet Annaud did manage to mak...( read more)
Set in French Colonial Vietnam in 1929, this Oscar-nominated film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. A 15-year-old French girl is sent to a Saigon boarding school, where she meets a 32-year-old Chinese aristocrat. Love at first sight leads to a liaison where the lovers...( read more)
A portrayal of a relationship between a pubescent girl (Jane March is 18 but looks much younger) and an older Chinese guy. Besides the intense sex scenes, one of the images that stays with me is their make out apartment. It is in the middle of the city with all the noises of lif...( read more)
Very good adaptation of the book by Marguerite Duras, "The Lover", but also inspired by one of her other books, "The North China Lover". For the first time ever, i felt like the movie was better than the book.The image is breathtaking, visually this movie is a real work of art. A...( read more)
Woa. I gather this is a common initial reaction to this film.
Intense, and powerful sexual energy exudes from this film's essence. It is a palpable and extremely thick spirit and vigor, that you can almost smell, and breathe directly into your glands.. a chemical reaction begins...( read more)
I remember having to go to Canada to see this in the theatre because the US band it because the girl was thirteen and said it was boardering on inappropriate subject matter. IT took a decade plus before it was allowed to come into the US, I still think it is because Hollywood doe...( read more)
I was young when I saw this so it had a huge impact. Highly recommended.
For ever Magarite Dura´s novels! A true provocative cenematic experience.
El entrego todo su alma y corazon desde la primera vez que la vio, amo con todas sus fuerzas y ser su unico amor....Ella se dio cuenta de masiado tarde que lo amaba, y se fue degando a su amor, pueden pasar los dias , meses y años pero el verdadero amor nunca se olvida se recuerda como el primer dia que cruzaron sus miradas... Ella se fue no lo vio nunca mas pero, el le llamo recordandole que ella siempre seria su unico amor.... Me facina esta movie es wow super linda...
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