Rotten
Scratch away the steamy, evocative surface, remove Jeanne Moreau's veteran-voiced narration, and you have only art-film banalities.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
The Lover
She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.
1992 · 1h 55m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jean-Jacques Annaud Director
- Jane March as The Young Girl
- Tony Leung Ka-fai as The Chinaman
- Frédérique Meininger as The Mother
- Arnaud Giovaninetti as The Elder Brother
- Melvil Poupaud as The Younger Brother
- Lisa Faulkner as Helene Lagonelle
- Jeanne Moreau as Narrator
- Xiem Mang as The Chinaman's Father
- Philippe Le Dem as The French Teacher
- Ann Schaufuss as Anne-Marie Stretter
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
32%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Annaud and his collaborators have got all of the physical details just right, but there is a failure of the imagination here; we do not sense the presence of real people behind the attractive facades of the two main actors.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Never mind that in portraying passion, the two seem to be demonstrating the proper use of the Salad Shooter.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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