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The Lover

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18 referencing feature instances

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The Lover	label	The Lover
The Lover	page	TheLover
The Lover	comment	The Lover (or L'Amant) is a 1992 French drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and based on the novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras.Set in French Indochina in 1929, it depicts the illicit affair between a fifteen-year old French girl (Jane March) and her wealthy Chinese lover (Tony Leung Ka-fai), narrated by Jeanne Moreau (in both French and English).
The Lover	fetched	2023-11-14T06:14:38Z
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The Lover / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Lover / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The Chinaman takes the Girl's family out to dinner where they respond by alternately ignoring and humiliating him. Along with jealousy caused by the Girl dancing with her younger brother, this leads the Chinaman to rape her on their return to their love nest. The Girl responds by demanding money as if they were in a brothel.
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The Lover / int_1d47b2b7	type	Unable to Cry
The Lover / int_1d47b2b7	comment	Unable to Cry: The Girl is leaving on the ship for France when she sees the limousine parked on the wharf, with the Chinaman in the back watching her.
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The Lover / int_26fa627a	type	Elephant in the Living Room
The Lover / int_26fa627a	comment	Elephant in the Living Room: No-one outside their families confront them about the scandal, and everyone takes it for granted that she's sleeping with the Chinaman for money, as the idea that two people of different races would fall in love is unthinkable.
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The Lover / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Lover / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: He died when the family had just moved to Vietnam.
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The Lover / int_325ae6f6	type	It Doesn't Mean Anything
The Lover / int_325ae6f6	comment	It Doesn't Mean Anything: The Girl repeatedly tells the Chinaman that she's not in love with him. It's only when she's on the ship back to France that she's forced to acknowledge her feelings.
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The Lover / int_40b1c664	type	The Patriarch
The Lover / int_40b1c664	comment	The Patriarch: The Chinaman begs his father to delay his Arranged Marriage a year so he can experience this One True Love. His father replies that he'd rather see his son dead than involved with a white girl.
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The Lover / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Lover / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The Girl claims there's nothing going on with the Chinaman, "not even a kiss", when she's wearing his expensive diamond ring.
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The Lover / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
The Lover / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: In the end, the Girl and the Chinaman have to come to terms with the idea that they can't be together.
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The Lover / int_42842d9b	type	Heirloom Engagement Ring
The Lover / int_42842d9b	comment	Heirloom Engagement Ring: The Chinaman gives the Girl his mother's ring, presumably a family heirloom meant to be passed onto the women he's been arranged to marry, and he's shown placing it on her ring finger just like you would with your betrothed. Naturally the Girl's mother and elder brother refuse to believe the Chinaman would give her an expensive diamond ring if he wasn't getting something in return, despite her fervent denials.
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The Lover / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
The Lover / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: The Chinaman waits outside her school every day, while the girl turns up at his Arranged Marriage. As the Girl departs on the ship to France, she sees his limousine parked on the docks.
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The Lover / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Lover / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: In the car trip from the ferry to Saigon the Girl and the Chinaman go from touching fingers to Holding Hands to Intertwined Fingers — by the time they get to their destination they're covered in sweat and his hand has reached her upper thigh.
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The Lover / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
The Lover / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Helene walks around the school dormitory naked. The narration explicitly describes her as "innocent" and that she doesn't really think about what she's doing.
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The Lover / int_55ee648c	type	MommyIssues
The Lover / int_55ee648c	comment	Mommy Issues: Well, obviously. The Mother is abusive and completely out of touch with reality.
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The Lover / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
The Lover / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: The Chinaman takes the Girl to a love nest in the Chinese quarter that he keeps for his mistresses, but is reluctant to actually go through with the act until she insists.
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The Lover / int_57980ca0	type	Smoking Hot Sex
The Lover / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex
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The Lover / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Lover / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: The Girl is actually turned on by the idea that the Chinaman has had many previous lovers, and regards it as his occupation.
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The Lover / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Lover / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: As the ship departs for France, the Girl sees the black limousine parked on the docks with her lover motionless inside. She in turn stands with one foot on the ship's railing in imitation of when they first met, not moving or showing any emotion, just looking in his direction until his car is no longer in sight.
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The Lover / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
The Lover / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: The Girl in the novel speaks explicitly of wanting to make love to Helene. In the film they lie in bed together while talking about the affair, and when Helene fantasizes about sleeping with men for money, the Girl caresses her body and talks about how lucky those men would be.
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The Lover / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
The Lover / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: It's the girl who is the sexual aggressor.
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The Lover / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
The Lover / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Paolo (the younger brother) dies of alcohol poisoning, which makes The Girl realize her mother and older brother are completely irredeemable and gives her a more cynical outlook on life.
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The Lover / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
The Lover / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: The Chinaman wraps his jacket around the Girl's shoulders as she shows him the property her family invested in, now inundated by the sea.
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The Lover / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Lover / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: The older brother in the novel. The younger brother after their move to Paris - he dies of alcohol poisoning.
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The Lover / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Lover / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: The Chinaman has a long-arranged marriage to a girl from another wealthy Chinese family.
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The Lover / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
The Lover / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Duras in the novel switches back and forth between first and third person. The Narrator in the film.
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The Lover / int_98ba5dfe	type	Unproblematic Prostitution
The Lover / int_98ba5dfe	comment	Unproblematic Prostitution: The Girl is excited by the idea of sex without emotional attachment. Despite her disapproval her mother clears the way by insisting that her boarding school not enforce her curfew. The school goes along because they need a few white girls to enhance their status, and so can't afford to expel her.
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The Lover / int_9aebded4	type	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow
The Lover / int_9aebded4	comment	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: The very rare gender-inverted version where a White girl is being charmed by a high-class Asian man.
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The Lover / int_9c4003a1	type	One True Love
The Lover / int_9c4003a1	comment	One True Love: At the end of the movie, The Narrator tells how she got a phone call from the Chinaman after she became a writer later in life, saying that he has never stopped loving her.
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The Lover / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
The Lover / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: While his family has a screaming match over the Girl's affair in the next room, the younger brother is playing a piano trying to drown them out.
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The Lover / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Lover / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: The Chinaman falls for the Girl from the moment he sees her standing by the railing of a cross-river ferry.
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The Lover / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Lover / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Duras has stated that she is the Young Girl, and the affair has been depicted in different (sometimes opposing) ways in her novels.
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The Lover / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
The Lover / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: The Girl's mother is a manic depressive, a poor land investment has destroyed their savings, and the elder brother bullies his younger siblings and steals from his family to feed his gambling and opium habits. It's clear that the Girl prostituting herself is as much an escape, as a means of solving their financial difficulties.
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The Lover / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The Lover / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: The elder brother has a predatory interest in his sister, while the sight of the Girl dancing intimately with her young brother drives the Chinaman to jealousy.
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The Lover / int_be23e9f6	type	Millionaire Playboy
The Lover / int_be23e9f6	comment	Millionaire Playboy: Subverted; the Chinaman is a handsome and wealthy hedonist, but is physically weak and lacking in self-confidence.
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The Lover / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
The Lover / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: Applies to both parties — The Girl being white sets her above the Chinaman racially, while her impoverished status sets her below him socially.
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The Lover / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
The Lover / int_c4500946	comment	Break His Heart to Save Him: The Chinaman tries to do this to himself, making the Girl say that she was only ever sleeping with him for money, from the moment they first met. Given that The Girl doesn't want to admit any romantic attraction herself, she plays along willingly.
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The Lover / int_c4caad92	type	Opium Den
The Lover / int_c4caad92	comment	Opium Den: The Chinaman tries to dull his pain with opium when the time comes for the Girl to return to France.
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The Lover / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Lover / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The protagonists are only referred to as The Young Girl and The Chinaman. In fact, almost no one has their name stated save for Helene Lagonelle and Anne-Marie Stretter, both relatively minor characters. The younger brother's name is Paolo, but this is a case of All in the Manual from Marguerite Duras's books.
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The Lover / int_d60bc4a0	type	Longing Look
The Lover / int_d60bc4a0	comment	Longing Look: A constant motif throughout the movie.
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The Lover / int_db8b1727	type	Window Love
The Lover / int_db8b1727	comment	Window Love: The day after their first meeting the Girl is surprised to see the Chinaman's black limousine outside the school. She walks up to the car and sensuously presses her lips to the window where he's sitting in the back seat.
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The Lover / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
The Lover / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: The Chinaman admits that he's never been good at studying or business.
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The Lover / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Lover / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Both protagonists acknowledge from the beginning that there's no future in the affair.
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The Lover / int_f19ff224	type	TheUNFavourite
The Lover / int_f19ff224	comment	The Un-Favourite: Both Paolo and The Girl to their mother. She neglects them harshly.
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The Lover / int_f8014b20	type	Explicit Content
The Lover / int_f8014b20	comment	Explicit Content: The movie is quite renowned for its barely censored sex scenes and generous amounts of nudity and overall eroticism.
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The Lover / int_feac0f90	type	Ephebophile
The Lover / int_feac0f90	comment	Ephebophile: The Girl claims to be seventeen, but she's actually fifteen years old. The Chinaman is 27 (32 in the film).
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The Lover	hasFeature	Between My Legs / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Break His Heart to Save Him / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Defiled Forever / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Films of 1990â€“1994 / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Heirloom Engagement Ring / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Incest Subtext / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Mating Dance / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Millionaire Playboy / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Opium Den / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Perverted Sniffing / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Slut-Shaming / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Stalking Is Love / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	The Grunting Orgasm / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Unresolved Sexual Tension / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Uptown Girl / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	Window Love / int_9e47d6c9
The Lover	hasFeature	With This Ring / int_9e47d6c9

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