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The Lover (1992)

★ 7.0 · 754 ratings on TMDB

She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.

The Lover poster★ 7.0

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.

DirectorJean-Jacques Annaud
CastAnn Schaufuss, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Frédérique Meininger, Jane March, Jeanne Moreau, Lisa Faulkner
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Lover keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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