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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: 7803
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:
 A Sensual and Moving January 18, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
love story. Its a must see film, and it was excellent how the 2 lover's names were never revealed throughout the entire movie.
 The Lover January 3, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Delicious, atmospheric tale that doesn't need a particle of truth to make it enjoyable. The settings were exotic and accurate.
Jane March at her best! December 27, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I agree with all the reviews about the story. Jane March is awesome in this - extremely erotic! i became a Jane March fan after watching this. The movie can be a little dull at times but she is worth every minute to see this. A must have for all Jane March fans. Follow it with "The Color of Night" and you too will love Jane March's erotic beauty!
A Classic Sensuous, Alluring and Enduring Love Story! December 24, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
You will NOT be disappointed with this movie! As required reading for upper division coursework at the University of the Pacific, I was introduced to several outstanding novels that have been made into excellent thought and soul provoking movies. This movie was one of them. I am particularly UNinterested in "love stories", "romance" or "erotica" per se, but this movie has original, cultural and sensual nuances that CANNOT be denied with such viewing pleasure.
There is a deeper wisdom than projected on the surface of this movie. You will probably have to see it more than once to catch many subtleties that might be overlooked in the first viewing, as this movie has many inside cultural aspects that may not be understood by the "average moviegoer". The regional and cultural scenery also adds an intense mystique to the movie, as well as educated those less experienced about this culture and historical era.
I HIGHLY recommend this movie as it will surely surprise you in its originality and deep connections to a latent part of self, not always discovered in youth, but as can also be discovered at ANY stage of life, as is so often overlooked, yet well portrayed by the male leading character, played by the HOT actor Tony Leung Ka Fai. Jane March plays such an overt sensual character that the sensuality Leung brings to the screen, is more subtle, but just as intense.
An exciting journey along a winding river of passion... December 16, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Jean-Jacques Annaud's film version of Marguerite Duras, one of France's most esteemed writers, is quite erotic... told from the perspective of a 15-and-a-half-year-old French girl, who learns very early about passion, love and heartbreak...
It's the crossing of the river... The crossing, on a ferry, of one of the branches of the Mekong, in the great plains of mud and rice of southern Indochina...
A pretty young girl goes back to Saigon... She is standing on the deck, extremely defiant, wearing a silk dress, a pair of 'cabaret' high heels, and a man's hat... She is approached by an elegant dark man from Cholon who is also crossing the Mekong that day towards Saigon... 'I like your hat. It's original. A man's hat on a young girl,' he expresses, and continues: 'If you want I can drive you to Saigon.'
The rich Chinese playboy with a black Rolls-Royce is 32 years old, from that financial minority that owns all the popular housing of the colony... He's back from Paris where he undertook some business studies...
The film, beautifully shot, is a dreamy fantasy of escape through sex... The escape is that of the poor French teenager from the horror of her house in Sa-Dec... While the girl merely abides her innocent mother, she loves her younger brother poetically, without reserve... Her brother is handsome but not bright, romantic but terribly fragile... She fears her elder brother, a brutal and lawless dissolute man, stupidly dependent on his mother... The inexperienced girl wants to see him in pain...
The most remarkable aspect of the story is the strength of character of the young girl who is always a little sad... She finds the strength to proceed against the forbidden with a calm determination... "I've never followed anyone into a room yet.," she exclaims...
The room was dark, shipwrecked, surrounded by the never-ending clamor of the town, carried away by the flow of the town... Her body was in that public noise... Their love was erotic, immediate, unrestrained... It was physical, violent, devastating...
But the girl loves other young woman in the boarding house, the 17-year-old Helen... Her passion for Helene is intense... Helen is immodest... She don't realize she walks naked in the dormitory... She doesn't know that she's very beautiful... She's innocent lingering on in youth...
'The Lover' parallels the life of Duras herself... The setting, in Indochina, is one she knows intimately... The story is set mostly in the early 1920s following the decline of French domination of the territory that is now Vietnam... The film is the most exciting journey along a winding river of passion, which ultimately flows to the sea...
Jean-Jacques Annaud handles the story with real sensuality, romance and dramatic power... He shots much of the film with a distinguished style...
Jane March is attractive, but not obviously beautiful... Her impressionable teenager's gradual understanding of sexuality is well presented... She was subjected to a close, penetrating gaze by Annaud's camera..
Tony Leung, as the rich Chinaman, is the lusty son unable to escape his family's commands...
Although unseen, Jeanne Moreau jaded voice narrates the action and imparts a special flavor... Her words are poetry, as any Duras reader knows...
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