Tuesday, June 7, 2011

L'amant (The Lover) (1992)

Director: Jean Jacques Annaud
Writers:  Jean Jacques Annaud, Gerard Brach, Marguerite Duras
Cast:      Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai
The film is about an affair between a teenage French girl and a Chinese businessman in 1929 Indochina. The main gripe I have with the film is that its very odd watching a film in which a French girl and a Chinese man who did his studies in France speak English with perfect accents. It felt like watching a poorly dubbed film with cringe worthy screenplay. Apart from that the film is shot very well and is the first western film to be filmed in Vietnam after the war. The second half of the film is much better than the first,

Rating: 2/5

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