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The lover

The lover

DVD 2021

Colonial French Indochina, late 1920s: a fifteen-year-old French girl (Jane March) returns to Saigon, where she attends a girls' boarding school. On her way there, she meets a handsome, wealthy and much older Chinese man (Tony Leung Ka Fai) - from a respectable family. Going against the conventions of their respective societies, the lustful pair begin a passionate affair. Their strong attraction toward one another is only intensified by the illic...

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Indochina History Fiction
Man-woman relatiosnhips Fiction
May-December romances Fiction
Teenage girls Indochina Fiction
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Description:
1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: R
Other Title:
Original title: L'amant
Notes:
From the novel by Marguerite Duras
Title from container
Videodisc release of a 1992 motion picture
Director of photography, Robert Fraisse ; music, Gabriel Yared
Jane March, Tony Leung, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
Audio track in English, French, with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish
Control Number:
3225344
UPC:
030306718996
Other Authors:
Annaud, Jean-Jacques, film director
Brach, Gérard, screenwriter
Burrill Productions, production company
Films A2 (Firm), production company
Giovaninetti, Arnaud, actor
Liang, Jiahui, actor
MGM Home Entertainment Inc., production company
MPI Media Group, film distributor
March, Jane, 1973- actor
Meininger, Frédérique, actor
Poupaud, Melvil, actor
Renn Productions, production company
Yared, Gabriel, composer
motion picture adaptation of (work): Duras, Marguerite. Amant. English
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