Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The lover / Claude Berri presents ; a film by Jean-Jacques Annaud ; adaptation by Gérard Brach and Jean-Jacques Annaud ; directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.

Publisher, Date:

Orland Park, IL : MPI Media Group, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager meets a handsome Chinese playboy from a respectable family. Going against the conventions of their respective societies, the lustful pair begin a torrid affair in a seedy Saigon neighborhood. Their strong attraction toward one another is only intensified by the illicit nature of their rendezvous. Given such circumstances, can their relationship last?

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R; for appeal for graphic and explicit sexuality.

Subjects:

Teenage girls -- Indochina -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Indochina -- Drama.

Genre:

Romance films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Berri, Claude, producer.

Annaud, Jean-Jacques, film director, screenwriter.

Brach, Gérard, screenwriter.

March, Jane, 1973- actor.

Liang, Jiahui, actor.

Meininger, Frédérique, actor.

Giovaninetti, Arnaud, actor.

Poupaud, Melvil, actor.

Faulkner, Lisa, actor.

Moreau, Jeanne, 1928-2017, actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Duras, Marguerite. Amant. English.

MPI Media Group, publisher.

Other Title:

Original title: L'amant

Notes:

Title from sell sheet.

Not all language options are printed on container.

Based on the 1984 novel by Marguerite Duras.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1992.

Wide screen.

Special features: picture galleries: "On set", "Filming locations", "Marguerite Duras and Jane March"; interview with novelist Marguerite Duras and director Jean-Jacques Annaud; unreleased scenes; making-of; trailers.

Cinematography, Robert Fraisse ; editing, Noëlle Boisson ; music, Gabriel Yared.

Jane March, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud, Lisa Faulkner, Jeanne Moreau.

DVD, NTSC, widescreen (1.85:1, 16:9) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.

In English, dubbed French or dubbed German; with optional subtitles in English, French, German or Spanish.

ISBN:

9786318624619 : DVD

6318624619 : DVD

Publisher Number:

DVD7189

Other Number:

1286630498

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

949197

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Lover