The Lover (film)

See also: the Lover

the Lover is a film free-britannico-Vietnamese carried out by Jean-Jacques Annaud, adapted Romance of Marguerite Duras, and left in 1992.

Synopsis

At the 70 years age, Marguerite Duras tells us her adolescence in hidden Indo-China and her “periods”. In bulk, the author evokes the difficult relations with his mother, the love which it carries to her little brother, his/her 17 years Chinese lover his elder, its physical attraction for a comrade with the boarding school, etc

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Jane March : the young girl
  • Tony Leung Ka Fai: the Chinese
  • Frederique Meininger: the mother
  • Arnaud Giovaninetti: the groin
  • Melvil Poupaud: the young brother
  • LISA Faulkner: Helene Lagonelle
  • Xiem Mang: the father of the Chinese
  • Philippe Dem: the French professor
  • Ann Schaufuss: Anne-Marie Stretter
  • Quach Van Year: the driver
  • Tania Torrens: principal the
  • Raymonde Heudeline: the author (fine)
  • Yvonne Wingerter: the author (beginning)
  • C Minh Vien: the young boy
  • Helene Patarot: the assistant
  • Jeanne Moreau: the narrator

Around film

  • Marguerite Duras disavowed this adaptation of its novel. At once after having broken its collaboration with the realizer it rewrote his novel. the Lover of China of North left in 1991. " Nothing attaches me to film, it is a phantasm of one named Annaud." ( Release , January 2nd 1992.)
  • the film carried out 3.156.000 entries in France.

Distinctions

Rewards

Nominations

  • César of best photography, better costumes, better assembly, better decorations and better foreign film in 1993.
  • Oscar of best photography in 1993.

External bond

  • the Lover on Internet Movie Database

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