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The Lover(L’Amant)

  • Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud

  • France, UK, Vietnam, 1992, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, 115mins, DCP

  • Cast: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Jeanne Moreau

Formative years in French Indochina inspired Duras’ famed semi-autobiographical novel The Lover. Jean-Jacques Annaud’s lush and explicit adaptation of the early 1930s story sees a free-spirited French 15-year-old meeting a wealthy Chinese man – played by the seductive Tony Leung Ka-fai – on a Mekong ferry. He’s immediately infatuated with her, even if she professes no love in return, and taboo trysts start in his Saigon bachelor room. Spiked with racism and privilege, and a sensation in Hong Kong on theatrical release, Annaud’s steamy tropical drama explores a relationship where any future seems scandalous and impossible.

César Awards: Best Music

21/6(Sun): Film Talk with William Lau

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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.