The Lover
by Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Actor: Arnaud Giovaninetti, Fr?d?rique Meininger, Jane March, Melvil Poupaud, Tony Leung Ka FaiDirector: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cinematographer: Robert Fraisse
Writer: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Producer: Claude Berri
Producer: Jacques Tronel
Producer: Timothy Burrill
Writer: G?rard Brach
Writer: Marguerite Duras
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Lover
DVD Review: The most romantic artistic project of this original director!
Summary: 5 Stars
Jean Jacques Anaud is a very talented director. Since his debut in 1977 with "Black and white in colors" and his cult movie "The war of fire", we were aware about him. He was the responsible for bringing us the notable cinematographic adaptation of "The name of the rose". That's why one wonders oneself about his unlimited magic. "The lover" is a film based on Marguerite Duras' novel, and portraits the memories of a teenager who meets a Chinese and wealthy dandy. Impacted and dazzled by his elegance and good manners, tired of her problematic familiar nucleus, impoverished by external affairs and wishful to experience new sensations, becomes his mistress.
Although the film is slow-paced, it has intense moments, perhaps due the fact the handle of the narrative time doesn't fit with the time in the cinema. Sometimes reiterative and rhetorical, we will witness the imminent fatality that waits for them when the cultural, economic and social appears as an insurmountable barrier.
An original item among your invaluable collection.
DVD Review: Beautiful.
Summary: 5 Stars
As with the book, this movie is hauntingly beautiful and it is the story of a young school girl with a rocky family life who becomes the lover of an older man. But don't just watch it for the story, watch it because it is filmed so beautiful, and the best way I can decribe it is this; sweaty. I can't recommend this one enough. Also, read the book: The Lover.DVD Review: The Lover
Summary: 5 Stars
I am most surprised by what some stupid people will write, about a wonderful story. IF it is a true story, I have no idea, but I do remember what it was like being 15 1/2 and being confused by what my body was telling me, and Jane March, did a super job in this movie. "Soft porn"? Well, okay, it has some sex in it, but the story line is so good. It's about a poor trash white girl, who falls in love with a older rich "Chinese" man. She doesn't even realize she is in love, yet she is at the end, yet she STILL can't admit it to her self. He is a rich "Chinese man" who tells her in the beginning that he doesn't want to do this, because he could fall in love with her. Forbidden love is always the best love. Yet, this love is ever lasting. The scenery is beautiful. Awesome photography, beautiful flowing music. At first, I wasn't too sure of this movie, but as I got lost in the story, I was so sorry it ended the way it did. It had no other way of ending! Chinese men with white women, was only for men with whores. White women, with Chinese men, was only for the money. How CAN a movie such as this, end any other way? Even in France, racial mixes such as this weren't allowed. There was no were for this couple to go. She (the girl) couldn't tell even her family the truth, and while he (the Chinese man) tried to tell his Father, he HAD to marry of Chinese decent. What a sad love story. It's so sad, that more people couldn't see that in the USA. Simply a SUPER movie. DVD Review: delicious
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most delicious movies about sex and coming of age in a long time. Tony Leung is the sexiest human being ever to wear a white linen suit. Duras' novel is faithfully and pain-stakingly honored by the screen play.
Send me down the Mekong river in a fedora and braids, please.
DVD Review: Tea: Yes, please, and I'll probably have another cup shortly
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, a very enjoyable movie, both story wise and visually.
This is not a 'quickie' movie, get in get out. This story really paints the entire and complete picture of young girl's life and her first sexual encounter and is set back in time in Saigon. I enjoyed the characters and was surprised to find the leading man, more gentler than I would have expected (he's not a guy you'd find in a biker bar).
There were some slow parts, for me, but I understand the desire to tell the whole story. I thought the mix of narration and actually being present in that moment very interesting. They also did a nice job with the sex scenes, though on some I wish they had moved the camera closer to the action or at least gave more hints of it.
The ending was very good. You felt for both of the lovers and their journey of self discovery and growth.
Too bad they didn't make a series...
Description of The Lover
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.Lovely to look at, this story reveals little more than the characters' nude bodies. Like couples whose only attraction is physical, this has little to offer once it leaves the bedroom. We never learn the interests or inner workings of the lovers in question. They become nothing more than attractive bodies, which makes this little more than a shallow exercise in sexuality. The story is based on the controversial, and supposedly autobiographical, bestseller by experimental French novelist Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a young French schoolgirl who becomes sexually involved with a sophisticated, older Asian man. Set in Indochina in the late 1920s, this is stunningly photographed and artfully directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. That said, the lack of a more satisfying plot means this is merely tastefully produced soft porn. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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