L'Amant
(1992)
Director:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writer:
Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Marguerite Duras
Cast:
Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Frédérique Meininger
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.