The Lover
Jan 22 1992
•2h 55m
•Drama, Romance
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.
Cast
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Jane March
The Young Girl
Tony Leung
The Chinaman
Frédérique Meininger
The Mother
Arnaud Giovaninetti
The Elder Brother
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