Skip to content
Back
The Lover

The Lover

JAN 22, 1992 · 115 MIN · DIR. JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD

DramaRomance

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

  • Jane March

    Jane March

    The Young Girl

  • Tony Leung Ka-fai

    Tony Leung Ka-fai

    The Chinaman

  • Frédérique Meininger

    Frédérique Meininger

    The Mother

  • Arnaud Giovaninetti

    Arnaud Giovaninetti

    The Elder Brother

  • Melvil Poupaud

    Melvil Poupaud

    The Younger Brother

  • Lisa Faulkner

    Helene Lagonelle

  • Jeanne Moreau

    Jeanne Moreau

    Narrator (voice)

  • Xiem Mang

    The Chinaman's Father

  • Philippe Le Dem

    Philippe Le Dem

    The French Teacher

  • Ann Schaufuss

    Anne-Marie Stretter

  • Tania Torrens

    Tania Torrens

    The Principal

  • Espérance Pham Thai Lan

    Espérance Pham Thai Lan

    Femme

Crew

Screenplay

Gérard Brach

Screenplay

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Director of Photography

Robert Fraisse

Editor

Noëlle Boisson

Original Music Composer

Gabriel Yared

Producer

Claude Berri