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Quick Info

Rating

7.0/10

Release1992

Runtime1h 55m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

Revenue$5,013,090

Production

Timothy Burrill Productions

Renn Productions

Grai Phang Film Studio

Films A2

Movie

The Lover

1992

1h 55m

7.0

Drama

Romance

Synopsis

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.

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