The Lover

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The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated to 43 languages and was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. It was adapted to film in 1992 as The Lover. Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an ol... more
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  • Jan 22, 1992

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  • 1 h 55 min

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Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943) is a French film director. Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, a southern suburb of Paris, France. He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s. In his first feature film, Black and White in Color from 1976,...

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (French pronunciation: [maʀɡəʁit dyˈʁas]) (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director. She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French...

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