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| The Lover | 
 enlarge | Director: Jean-jacques Annaud
Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  131 reviews
Sales Rank: 6982
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 115
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1002733D
ISBN: 0792851579
UPC: 027616869319
EAN: 9780792851578
ASIN: B00005PJ6R
Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 1992
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Intensely erotic..... March 9, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I saw this movie about 15 years ago and it was my first time seeing such a movie with such passion, eroticism, and intensity. It is a GREAT movie that makes your heart beat out of your chest..DEFINATELY watch this with your lover or significant other.
Great Movie March 9, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful movie. The actors are all brilliant. It is a different kind of love story.
 improved Lolita, incomplete Psyche, seven stages of an affair February 16, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
An alliance of convenience between a rich man and a needy young girl is explored through all its phases and taken to its final conclusion, decades later. If you have an interest in this subject you will like the movie and see it as deep and profound, otherwise it will seem shallow and bore you because of the incompletely developed side plots.
There are many side plots. Sexual awakening of a young girl, mentioned in other reviews, seems to be a side plot, though fairly well developed. Chemistry between adolescent girls, the jealousy and competition among siblings, these are introduced but left frustratingly undeveloped. It would have made the movie too long.
It works out much better than Lolita where the girl dies and the man is jailed for murder, but not as well as Psyche where through the diligence of her magical helpers and the deviousness of Venus there is a complete conversion from secret mistress to immortal wife, the oldest and most famous in literature. The difference I believe is in the respect the older lover shows for the girl and her family, even though they don't deserve it. This redeems his character as compared to Lolita's blundering lover who covers up his mistakes and takes no responsibility for outcomes. But though responsible in the present this lover takes no responsibility for the future, unlike Cupid who insists on charging against fate and tradition (though sensibly so, and only after he has tested his companion).
The young girl also takes responsibility, entering the relationship with deliberate awareness. The whole film/novel is in fact an exercise/lesson in self awareness. But she is incomplete compared to Psyche, who allows herself to feel deeply enough to be moved while movement still matters.
By comparison the story also shows the role of circumstance. In Psyche's story, Cupid's mother (wittingly or unwittingly, a subject for debate) plays an important role in putting the couple together. In The Lover, his mother has died but her strong memory as evidenced by the sad state of his father sets the stage for love. In Lolita, the man's mother is absent altogether and so is his respect for his partner or her family or any sense of personal responsibility.
What follows is somewhat of a spoiler. I believe the movie shows the seven stages of an affair: infatuation, lust, love, rape, impotence, longing and reunion. By omission it shows what an affair is not. It is not the long term building of a family. Had the girl become pregnant as Psyche did what would have happened? It seems likely that in real life this would have happened, and then real choices would have to be made.
Exquisitely Erotic...A Visual FEAST! January 31, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you're all about the blockbusters and have no patience for subtlety, or watching a truly engaging, sensual story unfold...then "The Lover" is not for you. If, however, the idea of being led to a hypnotic state of visual euphoria, where every gesture, every touch, is so loaded with deep desire and eroticism that when it finally reaches it's peak, it's the very definition of passion and even carnality...if you've ever felt a forbidden or impossible longing, ever been drunk with the ecstacy of indulging your passion, or ever been wounded by the slight-of-hand of love, even without knowing it at first...this movie is a masterpiece, and you will absolutely LOVE it!
Sexy, painful, smart, and deep. January 25, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This movie gets in your head and stays there. The sex scenes are beautiful and powerful.
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