The Lover
France
24842 people rated In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
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Tasha Tior
09/10/2025 12:20
honestly there are no quite deep feelings between them, just desires. I think the guy was amazing, but the girl is verry confusing. There are no love story, not even a kiss. I'd rate it 1/10
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20/08/2024 12:37
Let's get this right out of the way... yes, the sex is explicit. Guys, if you're looking for a movie with sex that you can get your girlfriend to watch, go find the unrated version. It's well done and doesn't have cheesey * music.
That being said, there are other interesting points to the movie. The characters are perhaps one dimensional, but let's be honest - so are a lot of people out there. I don't understand why moviemakers are so often blasted for portraying people who aren't layer upon layer of insight and revelation. Real life is often not like that anyway.
These are good renditions of people trapped by convention and culture. The Chinaman is an outsider, socially unacceptable, who won't step outside the customs that bind him. If he follows his heart, he will lose everything. So he doesn't. The Girl is much the same. When she is alone with her lover she drops the pretense that her milieu demands. But when she is with her family, he is just another man with a skin colour not her own, and she ignores him. With a little encouragement from her, her lover might have dared to step outside custom. But she was seduced by a rich, mysterious, older man and does not want what would come after if they did decide to defy everyone. She's already poor and sad; she doesn't want more of that life. After their affair is over, she experiences regret, but not because she misses what their life would have been, but because she misses the excitement in her sad life.
At the end, you see how it really was: years later, he phones and says how he will always love her. He was, in truth, her lover. But as the narrator stresses in the opening, she had been fifteen and a half. This was not a story about two lovers, but the one. How many fifteen and a half year old girls do you know who are capable of mature unselfish love, the kind that demands real sacrifice? That's right, not too many. Real love between these two was never in the cards; while one partner may have been capable of it, the other was not.
As far as story goes, there's not much. It's pretty basic, but great movies can be built on other things too. It's a beautiful film, as well. But the one biggest problem is the sex. It was done too well for a movie that didn't have much to put in the spots where there was no sex. The sex is hot. Then she goes back to school. Or home. Yawn. I kept expecting that maybe someone would do something in protest of her behaviour... her drug addict brother or her mother maybe. Or maybe the younger brother might shoot somebody... something!! But nothing. Blah.
All in all, very nice to look at, but pretty empty, and very uneven.
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23/05/2023 03:28
I have seen this film when it first opened in 1992. I bought the film when it became available. Sometimes when we think a film is the best movie ever made, it might change over the years. Not in this case, 14 years later, The Lover still stays on number 1 spot on my list. The voice of the narrator and the music has an lasting effect on me. The sex scenes were very natural, and not 'dirty'.
The were many similar love stories that come along, (for example -The Notebook, Harry & June) but non of them can be compared to The Lover. You can feel the passion between the two characters. If you don't believe me, see it for yourself, it will change your view on love! Btw, number 2 on my list is A Very Long Engagement! Number 3 spot is a tie between "Amelie" and "In The Mood For Love".