The Lover

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.

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  Jane March

  The Young Girl
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  Tony Leung Ka-fai

  The Chinaman
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  Frédérique Meininger

  The Mother
• 
  Arnaud Giovaninetti

  The Elder Brother
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  Melvil Poupaud

  The Younger Brother
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  Lisa Faulkner

  Helene Lagonelle
• 
  Jeanne Moreau

  Narrator
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  Philippe Le Dem

  The French Teacher
• 
  Tania Torrens

  The Principal
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  Espérance Pham Thai Lan

  Femme