L'Amant (1992)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:55:15 | 4.1 Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; #2 French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subs: English, Spanish, French | Genre: Erotic Drama, Romance, Biography
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:55:15 | 4.1 Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; #2 French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subs: English, Spanish, French | Genre: Erotic Drama, Romance, Biography
From the novel of the same namewhich has sold over one million copies in 43 languagesthis "sophisticated adaptation of Marguerite Duras' best-selling memoirs" (Variety) smolders on the screen. "Masterfully acted and beautifully photographed" (Critics' Choice), The Lover brilliantly captures the essence of sexual awakening and forbidden desire like no other film has donebeforeor since. Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor French teenager who engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir (Tony Leung) 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. But though the lovers are able to transcend their differences in age, race and class'theirs is a future that French colonial Vietnamese society will never allow. 10 minutes of additional footage not included in the domestic in the theatrical release - Not Rated.
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.Review by Paul Brenner, Allmovie.com
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Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writers: Marguerite Duras (based on the novel), Gérard Brach (adaptation), Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner and other
Special Features:
- Theatrical trailer
- Scene access
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