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The lover is a display of a meaningful relationship between a French girl and a much elder Chinese gentleman. It is a story of passion and romance that aims to discover the most complex and provocative realm of love. The film had an excellent quality of work produced by the directors. The amount of focus put on the minute relationship details and the scenes are just impressive. It is a perfect blend of drama, sensuality, eroticism, and romance which captivates the audience with its charisma. Also, the performances of the lead cast members are just breathtakingly amazing laced with the sizzling chemistry between the lovers. The movie is much more about just romance, but it is a pure display of emotions centered around the physical intimacy but originally based on a strong bond of belonginess. It is a great watch and will catch the attention of the viewer from the very start with its scandalous plot.
Best Music Meilleure musique | 1993 | Gabriel
Best Sound Editing Foreign Feature | 1993
Best Young Actress | 1992 | Jane
Best Cinematography | 1993 | Robert
Best Foreign Film | 1993
Best Cinematography Meilleure photographie | 1993 | Robert
Best Production Design Meilleurs dcors | 1993 | Hoang Thanh
Best Costume Design Meilleurs costumes | 1993 | Yvonne Sassinot de
Best Editing Meilleur montage | 1993 | Noëlle
Best Foreign Film Meilleur film tranger | 1993 | Jean-Jacques
Box Office Collection 5,013,090 USD
The film is based on the autobiographical novel by French author Marguerite Duras, whose youthful, real life romance with a Chinese man in colonial Vietnam caused a scandal.
Jane March plays a European woman who causes a scandal for having an affair with a Chinese man in Vietnam. In real life, March is of partial Chinese and Vietnamese descent.
Jane March denied that she and Tony Ka Fai Leung actually made love. (March: "I never had sex with Tony on or off the set. It's as simple as that.") All the sex scenes were done with careful choreography and body doubles. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud falsely implied the sex was real to boost publicity for the film, thus the sex-crazed English tabloid press trumpeted the rumor on its front pages for days, making life so miserable for March and her family that she got physically sick and had a nervous breakdown. March then fled to the Seychelles to escape. Annaud later stated the sex was not real, "At first I was flattered people believed [the sex]. But after that... I stopped doing press in Britain. Of course they didn't have sex."
Marguerite Duras' real Chinese lover was called Huynh Thuy Le.
All of the film's sex scenes had to be shot in Paris because the government of Vietnam wouldn't allow them to be filed on location.
"[last lines] Narrator: Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, the books, he had come to Paris with his wife. He had phoned her. He was intimidated; his voice trembled, and with the trembling it had found the accent of China again. He knew she'd begun writing books. He had also heard about the younger brother's death. He had been sad for her. And then he had no more to tell her. And then he told her - he had told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her until his death."
"[first lines] Narrator: Very early in my life, it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. At eighteen I aged. This aging was brutal. This aging, I saw it spread over my features, one by one. Instead of being frightened by it, I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of interest I might have taken for example in the reading of a book. That new face I kept it. It's kept the same contours, but its matter is destroyed. I have a destroyed face. Let me tell you again: I'm fifteen and a half. It's the crossing of a ferry on the Mekong."
