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The Lover
FRANCE · 1992

The Lover

Jean-Jacques Annaud
forbidden romance class difference colonial Indochina female agency coming of age
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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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