![]() The secret love affair is of course forbidden by the mores of the time both races hold strong feelings against interracial romance. ![]() Of the man we learn less he comes from a proud old family, and his bride will be selected for him according to the ancient ways. The girl hates her life - hates the bloody-mindedness of her teachers and fellow students, and the descent of her dysfunctional family into depravity. Life goes on outside the walls of this cocoon. Soon they are meeting regularly in an anonymous room in a Chinese district of the city, where their sexual encounters can only be described as inventive and thorough. They are attracted to each other in the first place by the kind of unconditional erotic magnetism that the French call a thunderbolt they look, they see, they lust. ![]() ![]() They are Jane March, as a French teenager living in a provincial area of Indochina and sent to Saigon to attend boarding school, and Tony Leung, as a rich Chinese aristocrat in his 30s. ![]() Is "The Lover" any good as a serious film? Not really.Īnnaud and his collaborators have got all of the physical details just right, but there is a failure of the imagination here we do not sense the presence of real people behind the attractive facades of the two main actors. ![]()
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