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The Lover (French title: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated to 43 languages. It was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943) is a French film director. ...
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Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras, (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. ...
Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943) is a French film director. ...
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Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras, (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. ...
Cover of the first book clandestinely published by Les Éditions de Minuit, as part of the French Resistance during WWII Les Éditions de Minuit (midnight editions) is a French publishing house which has its origins in the French Resistance of World War II and still publishes books today. ...
The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious prize in French literature, given to the author of the best and most imaginative prose work of the year. Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. ...
The Lover is also a 1992 movie based on this novel, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Jane March and Tony Leung Ka Fai. The cast also included Lisa Faulkner. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. A radio dramatisation, starring Diana Quick and Olivia Hallinan, which was rather more faithful to Duras's novel than the film, was broadcast in September 2007. “Moving picture†redirects here. ...
Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943) is a French film director. ...
Jane March (born Jane March Horwood in Edgware, London, England on March 20, 1973) is an English film actress, who has had lead roles in all of the films she has appeared in, and has made films in several countries. ...
Tony Leung Ka-Fai (梁家輝) is a Hong Kong movie actor born on February 1, 1958. ...
Lisa Faulkner (born 1973) is an English actress. ...
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Plot summary This summary is for the 1992 film.
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl (Jane March), from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese man (Tony Leung Ka-Fai). The story is narrated by Jeanne Moreau, portraying a writer looking back on her youth. Jeanne Moreau (born 23 January 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress. ...
In 1929, a 15 year old nameless girl is traveling by ferry across the Mekong Delta, returning from a holiday at her family home in the village of Sadec, to her boarding school in Saigon. She attracts the attention of a 32 year old son of a Chinese business magnate, a young man of wealth and heir to a fortune. He strikes up a conversation with the girl; she accepts a ride back to town in his chauffeured limousine.
Compelled by the circumstances of her upbringing, this girl, the daughter of a bankrupt, manic-depressive widow, is newly awakened to the impending and all-too-real task of making her way alone in the world. Thus, she becomes his lover, until he bows to the disapproval of his father and breaks off the affair.
For her lover, there is no question of the depth and sincerity of his love, but it isn't until much later that the girl acknowledges to herself her true feelings.
Production The film is noted for several sexually explicit scenes. (March had five body doubles, while Leung had two.) It has also been alleged that the sex scene in the film was unsimulated. This was not immediately denied by the filmmakers for publicity reasons.
When the film opened, it gained notoriety for its portrayal of an under-aged protagonist. Jane March was 18 at the time the film was made.
Real-life connections Duras' real-life Chinese lover was named Lee. The last she heard of him, he became a born again Christian and loved his family very much. He died and was buried in the same city in Vietnam where Duras first met him. Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ...
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Duras was only 15 at the time of her love affair, which is the age of the heroine in the novel.
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