French romantic classic

Dock 2022-01-13 08:02:05

The film "Lover", adapted from the autobiographical novel of French writer Marguerite Duras, tells a bleak and moving love story between a French girl and a Chinese girl in Saigon.
This movie, which became a sensation because of the bold and passionate drama between Leung Ka Fai and the teenage star Jane Margie, has always been labeled as erotic. Of course, as far as the plot is concerned, it does not break away from the stereotypes of romantic films, and naturally it is not exciting, but it is undeniable that the whole film is full of an exotic romantic mood. Even those erotic scenes, in addition to being passionate and hot, also have a unique and romantic atmosphere. The heroine may be due to her age, she is naturally immature, but her temperament and acting skills are not very prominent. Only Leung Ka-fai is the only one who is memorable. Whether it is his naked body, PP, elegant appearance, and skilled acting skills, it is very memorable and fascinating.
Compared with the remake of "Lolita" with a similar theme, it also describes the shocking indecent love (pedophilia?). I still prefer the elegant, delicate, light and lazy "Lover" French romance.

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Extended Reading
  • Reynold 2022-03-22 09:02:30

    First heard the theme song, then read the novel, then watched the movie about ten years ago. Young people's vague thirst for flesh and love is fermented in the copper stench of a tropical colony. I still remember Liang Shuji's buttocks.

  • Theron 2022-03-18 09:01:05

    Suffocated, not good-looking, Liang Jiahui's butt is good-looking.

The Lover quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, the books, he had come to Paris with his wife. He had phoned her. He was intimidated; his voice trembled, and with the trembling it had found the accent of China again. He knew she'd begun writing books. He had also heard about the younger brother's death. He had been sad for her. And then he had no more to tell her. And then he told her - he had told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her until his death.

  • Narrator: "Now and then I go back to the house in Sadek. To the horror of the house in Sadek. It's an unbearable place. It's close to death. A place of violence of pain of despair, of dishonour... But it's in this family's dryness in it's incredible harshness that I am the most deeply assured in myself. In the deepest of my essential certainties, all common history of ruin and shame, of love and hate is in my flesh."