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The Lover
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
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. From TMDB
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The Lover is a 1992 drama romance film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Frédérique Meininger.
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53 of 53 · most liked firstFor years, gaylors have been analyzing the way that Taylor uses 💛 to symbolize the closet. I’m going to start with the Lover era, because it lays the best foundation and context for this theory. If you’ve never seen the movie But I’m a Cheerleader, you should watch it! Taylor definitely has.
neutral · AI labelView post →Love Story 🤝 All Too Well 🤝 Lover 🤝 Fortnight TAYLOR SWIFT IS TELLING US A STORY!!! 📖☀️ youtu.be/0XMnz_022d8 The forehead touch from the Love Story music video deleted scene reminds me of the Fortnight music video forehead touch 🥹 (also happens in the ATW short film and the Lover music video) 🌟⭐️
neutral · AI labelView post →I was so lazy today, just hung out with my aunt and cousin in cosy lounge wear (it's giving the Lover album cover), ate good food, watched (mostly listened to) a bad Chris Pratt movie while on my phone
neutral · AI labelView post →2. The Lover. This DVD not really getting the idea of using the sleeve to favourably promote the movie. "Stylish if somewhat tedious study".
neutral · AI labelView post →#LitMusic24 #MusicChallenge Day 14: The Lover Gabriel Yared, “The Lover” from the original movie soundtrack m.youtube.com/watch?v=zK_9...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve always assumed the Lover house movie attic was like the Christmas Vacation scene
neutral · AI labelView post →Most of you are probably too young but do you remember a film called The Lover that came out in the early 90s? Obviously being called The Lover there was lots of sex in it & the lead actress Jane March was labelled by the press as the 'sinner from Pinner' & I think of that when I see Jannik Sinner 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →Enough unpleasantness. I posted my review of HEART THE LOVER on Book Chatter. Amazing read. Love Lily King’s writing. She writes about love so well. Gave me Big Chill movie vibes. #BookSky Comes out 9/30. Review: bookchatter.net/2025/09/19/r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Gabriel Yared (with scenes from "Camille Claudel", "The Lover", "Bon voyage" and "A Royal Affair" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 30 books that you’ve read that have been adapted for film and/or television. #Booksky #BookChallenge 7/30 📚💙 🖊️📚💙 #Books #Reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras 1984 trans by Barbara Bray - Film The Lover ( L'Amant) 1992 directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud with Jane March and Tony Leung
neutral · AI labelView post →Gabriel Yared (with scenes from "Camille Claudel", "Vincent & Theo", "The Lover" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally getting around to watching 'She's The Man' and I am very much realising Taylor based a lot of the Lover era (especially The Man obvs) on this movie it's WILD
neutral · AI labelView post →#Authors born on April 4: Eliza Parsons (The Mysterious Warning), Stanley G. Weinbaum (“A Martian Odyssey”), Marguerite Duras (The Lover), Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings), Dan Simmons (Hyperion), and Gemma Files (Experimental Film). #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →That all 3 pictures from todays post are all from the Lover era but 2 of them were from a post from 2020 promoting the concert film for City of Lover and the second we didn’t see until 2023 when she was celebrating Cruel Summer becoming a single but also the post was about…
neutral · AI labelView post →Jane March in THE LOVER (1992), a film by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
neutral · AI labelView post →“I love you, my spaceman.” The story of romance that is as fated as falling snow. “Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S: The Movie”, adaptation of #SailorMoon manga side-story “The Lover of Princess Kaguya”, was released December 4, 1994, 30 years ago. #セーラームーン
neutral · AI labelView post →Initially Tim McGraw; when I came back Eras 1.0 the movie, by the end of the Fearless set I was back. (So any songs you need/want to use in this section and or/the Lover set)
neutral · AI labelView post →Odd title but the right title! All the emotions in a gorgeously written love story like no other. If you’re a fan of the film Past Lives, it will resonate deeply. It’s a book of the year contender! Heart the Lover by Lily King coming soon @canongate.co.uk 💙📚📖 #booksky #bookblogger #litmags #reading
neutral · AI labelView post →If they’re queer or if they’re film buffs taking about But I’m A Cheerleader and the Lover house definitely started to sway some people I know
neutral · AI labelView post →I've loved Fitzgerald's novels for decades, but I don't think I've ever read his short stories, so this was a pleasant revelation! And I've seen the (gorgeous) film made from Duras' book The Lover, but I'm not sure I've read any of her books, which is ridiculous...
neutral · AI labelView post →What do you mean Hudson Williams who plays Shane in Heated Rivalry wrote, directed, and starred in a 5 minute short film called Buttons - The Lover Archetype Explored Through a Pussycat Dolls Odyssey? And yes, it does have a Pussycat Dolls soundtrack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_xi...
neutral · AI labelView post →My most popular review ever at Film Freak Central is now THE LOVER. Maybe we just have horny readers, but I was kind of proud of this one, which I inherited from Bryant and tried to approach like he might have. filmfreakcentral.net/2022/02/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Conrad Von Pfeil, lesser-known silent film and vaudeville theater star who vanished under mysterious circumstances in the year 1931, and The Lover, which briefly appeared in front of Conrad in 1922, prior to his descent into madness and ultimate (presumed) departure from the world of the living.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sorry I don't mean to be that person, but I don't think this is accurate that she did the Lover concert film...I can't find the connection anywhere?
neutral · AI labelView post →“I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.” Marguerite Duras, The Lover #autobiographicalnovel #film
neutral · AI labelView post →Take your pick, in my AU we got Sailor Moon monsters to deal with every season. I suppose if we go with the Christmas Villain side, Princess Snow Kaguya from the Sailor Moon S movie and side story manga called 'The Lover of Princess Kaguya' would count. In Obey me, they had Dark Demon Santa.
neutral · AI labelView post →It would be amazing on the big screen! Something to keep an eye out for. I recently read Marguerite Duras' The Lover and she mentions it many times throughout the novel--so I had to followup and see it, of course. She wrote a review on the film but I don't think it's been translated. yet.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Lover Film, 1992 Makes for musings of the erotic kind: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lov... How it all started in his car as his driver drove them to her destination.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Girl hunts boy" is such a Taylor coded movie. Someone is definitely a swiftie on that team! It's Red (Taylor's version), and there's also the Lover vinyl cover, too ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched THE LOVER during the date of its festival release and, complicated movie that one lol
neutral · AI labelView post →It's time to start my horror comic/graphic novel read. I've not seen the films yet, but I do have the 9 movie bluray waiting to be viewed. The first title to be pulled from the #KRHorror archive will be The Conjuring: The Lover.
neutral · AI labelView post →Best known for his films Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Lover, Seven Years in Tibet and Wolf Totem, the first film of Jean-Jacques Annaud #botd Black and White in Colour, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eras Tour in LA Night 3 | August 5, 2023 “I just feel like we’re dealing with a 13/10 rating for this crowd.” —TS during the Lover speech, hinting at the tour film release date in advance Surprise songs: Death by a Thousand Cuts”🎸💘 and You’re on Your Own, Kid 🎹 💙 wearing maroon
neutral · AI labelView post →What about a bad movie that was a good movie for a date? "The Lover" BTW she picked it out, and yes I "got lucky."
positive · AI labelView post →And that's the end of the Lover era! Tomorrow, I'll nerd more about the Eras Tour version of Fearless, AMA performance, and maybe even the Fearless concert movie??
neutral · AI labelView post →L'amant means a lot to me for reasons that are hard to articulate in a comment, but it's semi autobiographical, and I actually like the writing and voice better. There's a film based on it called the Lover but it's a bit much even if the actress is older.
neutral · AI labelView post →It pleases me that someone else in the world knows this movie exists. I didn't realize until much later in life that Winkler's "The Lover" persona was based (if loosely) on Gorgeous George.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminiscent of the 1992 film The Lover score.
neutral · AI labelView post →In answer to your ?, most scenes from the movie “The Lover”
neutral · AI labelView post →I would also love to hear your interpretation of the Helen Mirren food and music orgy film I could never tell whether I wanted to be the Wife or the Lover more. Or even the Chef. I feel like each of those characters embodied something of myself
neutral · AI labelView post →The Cook, the Lover and Revenge Cannibalism. Only movie I’ve ever walked out of 😱
neutral · AI labelView post →sounds like that movie, The COOK, The THIEF, The WIFE, The LOVER....I think we know who the latter three are
neutral · AI labelView post →I never did watch it but my intro to learning about Ka-Fai was the trailer to the film The Lover with Jane March. That feels like a movie most people don’t know or forgot it existed. On Tubi looks like.
neutral · AI labelView post →“The Lover” movie/novel. Loved it.
positive · AI labelView post →The Lover (1992) Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Melvil Poupaud, Arnaud Giovaninetti Watch Review wp / wd
neutral · AI labelView post →Red Letter Media's video about "The Color of the Night" reminded me of the french movie "The Lover" which is the romantic love story between a 14 years old and an adult man. Oh, the French.
neutral · AI labelView post →The dude next to me at the piercing studio has the Lover Loser IT tattoo and I want to ask so badly if it’s a ship thing or just something from a movie he liked
neutral · AI labelView post →Film rec: The Lover (1992) In 1929 French Indochina, a 15-year-old girl embarks on a love affair with a wealthy Chinese man. A semi-autobiographical, poignant exploration of desire, class, and identity with a poetic approach to a difficult subject matter. #filmsky youtu.be/z3PrUtpps-g
neutral · AI labelView post →is this The Lover, the french Memoir that later became a Jane March film?
neutral · AI labelView post →youtu.be/zK_9O60HcKo?... Tonight's piece of music is the main soundtrack theme from the beautifully evocative 1992 movie The Lover. Night folks 💤
neutral · AI labelView post →Do we have any hints whatever happened to Dimitri The Lover, or the movie about him? www.youtube.com/watch?v=neW-...
neutral · AI labelView post →did you ever see the movie made from Margaret Duras'book, The Lover. the intro narration is by Jeanne Moreau... in a voice that evokes every Gauloise smoked on screen, everrrrr... "By the time I was eighteen, it was already too late..." That one. i want that one 🥳
positive · AI labelView post →A wealthy man (Tony Leung) is travelling on a ferry when he encounters a pretty young woman (Jane March). It doesn't take long before they are having a fairly torrid affair, but things are difficult. He is older and a Chinese citizen, she a French girl in what was then French Indo-China. She is also a bit of a gold-digger and quite aware that if she plays her cards right, he can offer her a new, more prosperous, life than that she shares with her mother (Fréderique Meininger) and two brothers.…
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