El amante

Título original: L'amant

1992
18
1h 55min

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Period Drama Biography Drama Romance

En 1929, una adolescente francesa se embarca en un romance imprudente y prohibido con un hombre chino adinerado y mayor, y cada uno sabe que el conocimiento de su aventura traerá consecuenci... Leer todoEn 1929, una adolescente francesa se embarca en un romance imprudente y prohibido con un hombre chino adinerado y mayor, y cada uno sabe que el conocimiento de su aventura traerá consecuencias drásticas para el otro.En 1929, una adolescente francesa se embarca en un romance imprudente y prohibido con un hombre chino adinerado y mayor, y cada uno sabe que el conocimiento de su aventura traerá consecuencias drásticas para el otro.

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Nominado para 1 premio Óscar
- 3 premios y 7 nominaciones en total

Curiosidades
The film is based on the autobiographical novel by French author Marguerite Duras, whose real-life romance with a Chinese man in colonial Vietnam caused a scandal.

Pifias
Her lover smokes filtered cigarettes in 1929. They were not invented until the mid-'30s and not in common use until the 1950s.

Citas
[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.

Créditos adicionales
The opening credits are shown against a backdrop of what is presumably the author, Marguerite Duras, writing down her story.

Versiones alternativas
Available on video in two versions: the 103 min. R-rated cut and a much more explicit 115 min. unrated cut.

Conexiones
Featured in The Making of 'The Lover' (1991)

Banda sonora
Waltz in B minor Opus 69 No. 2
Written by Frédéric Chopin (as Chopin)
Performed by Howard Shelley

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Reseña destacada

8/10

More than sex scenes

First, let's deal with the giant elephant in the room. In the age of custom-made available on-demand adult content, one should not resort to movies like this to satisfy the curiosity for nude body or sex.

Yes, it involves relatively graphic and prolonged sexual scenes, but it's not a sexploitation movie. The Lover is based on a bestselling autobiographical story of Marguerite Duras (1984 Prix Goncourt), a well-established name in both cinema and literature who have also wrote Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959).

Although critics never loved the film, not very prudent viewer should appreciate nice cinematography, quality setting and realistic, easy to follow story played by very nice actors who look good both dressed and undressed. It's not a groundbreaking movie by all means, but there's so much more in it than people who label it with softcore or erotic can find: family trauma, living in a foreign culture, how traditions are shaping the future and how love could be cruel. It's not a movie about love, rather about the search to understand what love is when you are young and daring.