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22/01/1992 Drama, Romance 1h 55m
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She gave her innocence, her passion, her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love.

Overview

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.

  1. Jean-Jacques Annaud

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jane March

    The Young Girl

  2. Tony Leung Ka-fai

    The Chinaman

  3. Frédérique Meininger

    The Mother

  4. Arnaud Giovaninetti

    The Elder Brother

  5. Melvil Poupaud

    The Younger Brother

  6. Lisa Faulkner

    Helene Lagonelle

  7. Jeanne Moreau

    Narrator (voice)

  8. Xiem Mang

    The Chinaman's Father

  9. Philippe Le Dem

    The French Teacher

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-01-05
A wealthy man (Tony Leung) is travelling on a ferry when he encounters a pretty young woman (Jane March). It doesn't take long before they are having a fairly torrid affair, but things are difficult. He is older and a Chinese citizen, she a French girl in what was then French Indo-China. She is also a bit of a gold-digger and quite aware that if she plays her cards right, he can offer her a new, more prosperous, life than that she shares with her mother (Fréderique Meininger) and two brothers. The older brother (Arnaud Giovaninetti) is a bit puritanical when it comes to his sister, her younge...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$5,013,090.00

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