The Lover (1992)
L'Amant
"She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love."
ThumbScore
👍 70%audience score
Critics Score
🎬 44%
(RT: 28%, MC: 59) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jane March as The Young Girl
Frédérique Meininger as The Mother
Arnaud Giovaninetti as The Elder Brother
Lisa Faulkner as Helene Lagonelle
Xiem Mang as The Chinaman's Father
Is The Lover good?
Most people think so. 70% audience score, estimated from 746 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 44%, but audiences disagreed.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
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. Wikipedia ↗
