The Lover
(1992)L'amant 1992
Indochina, late 1920s... A French high school girl meets a wealthy Chinese man on a boat on the Mekong River and accepts his offer to travel together. After that, the girl will go to the man's waitress, and her first love will live there. Shaped by racial tensions and values such as money and status, this passionate relationship would mean a lifetime of true love for a Chinese man. A striking film adaptation of the novel of the famous writer Marguerite Duras, who was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's most important literary award, which bears traces of her own life story.
