Movie · 1992
The Lover
“She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.”
Released 22 January 1992 115 min Drama / Romance More from 1992 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
FR·01
How old were they?
Jeanne Moreau
as Narrator (voice)
Tania Torrens
as The Principal
Ann Schaufuss
as Anne-Marie Stretter
Tony Leung Ka-fai
as The Chinaman
Arnaud Giovaninetti
as The Elder Brother
Lisa Faulkner
as Helene Lagonelle
Jane March
as The Young Girl
Melvil Poupaud
as The Younger Brother
Frédérique Meininger
as The Mother
Xiem Mang
as The Chinaman's Father
Philippe Le Dem
as The French Teacher
Espérance Pham Thai Lan
as Femme
FR·02
The numbers
45years between the oldest and youngest billed
63Jeanne Moreau — oldest on the call sheet
18Melvil Poupaud — youngest billed
33average age of the credited cast