The Lover (1992)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The lover |
| Original title | L'Amant |
| Country of production | France , Great Britain , Vietnam |
| original language | English , French , Vietnamese |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| script | Jean-Jacques Annaud, Gérard Brach , Marguerite Duras (novel) |
| production | Claude Berri |
| music | Gabriel Yared |
| camera | Robert Fraisse |
| cut | Noëlle Boisson |
| occupation | |
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The Lover ( French original title: L'Amant ) is a film drama directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud from 1992 . The film is based on the eponymous autobiographical story by Marguerite Duras from 1984.
action
French Indochina in the late 1920s: After the end of the school holidays, a fifteen-year-old French woman returns to Saigon , where she goes to boarding school. On the ferry across the Mekong, she meets a handsome and obviously wealthy Chinese man 17 years her senior .
Despite, or perhaps because of, their opposites, the two are irresistibly drawn to each other, and a passionate affair develops, which is completely unacceptable at the time of French colonial rule in Indochina, now Vietnam .
When the mother learns of her daughter's liaison with the Chinese, she first tries to cut off contact. Since the family is in dire straits due to the gambling debts of the girl's opium addicted brother, the relationship is finally tacitly accepted due to the financial support from the lover.
The unequal couple is still denied a future together. The Chinese family marries him appropriately, and the girl returns to France with her family.
background
In search of a suitable actress for the role of the young girl, Annaud started casting calls in Great Britain, France and the USA, attended acting schools and leafed through countless magazines. After hundreds of ambitious young actresses had auditioned and none could really convince, Annaud's wife Laurence drew the director's attention to a photo of the then 17-year-old Jane March on the cover of Just Seventeen magazine from September 1990. Annaud about his leading actress: “Most girls of this age do not have this ambiguity . You have good teeth and a nice smile. [March on the other hand] had a past in their eyes. "
There was intense tension between Duras and the director because of the filming. The author rejected Annaud's staging of her novel because the script did not correspond to reality and the film reveals every detail. On the other hand, Annaud declared Duras' own draft script, L'Amant de la Chine du Nord (1991), to be unfilmed. In the end, the director was offended because he spared no effort in realizing the novel and even had an ocean liner rebuilt true to the original; the author felt cheated out of her story, her "lover".
Filming lasted five months and took place in Ho Chi Minh City and Paris . For reasons of better infrastructure and supply, the producers initially considered shooting the film in Thailand , Malaysia or the Philippines , but ultimately they decided in favor of authenticity in Vietnam. The Lover was the first western film to be shot in Vietnam since reunification in 1976 . The Vietnamese government welcomed the filming and even made a helicopter available to the 60-strong film crew , but in return also demanded a look into the script and refused permission to film the sex scenes, which were therefore filmed in Paris. In addition, a government representative was on set during the entire filming process. The ocean liner used for the final scene was brought from Cyprus to the port of Ho Chi Minh City especially for the film .
The film celebrated its world premiere on January 22, 1992 in France and was released in German cinemas on March 26, 1992.
Because the close-up shots during the sex scenes look very real, the British press speculated that the two main actors actually did the sex act in front of the camera, and Jane March was nicknamed "The Sinner from Pinner" (in English: "The Sinner." von Pinner “; Pinner is the London suburb where March grew up). March and her family made this reporting so difficult that they went into hiding temporarily to get away from the headlines. With the statement "Whether it is simulated or real, it does not matter to me", director Annaud initially did not put a stop to the speculations, only later did he reject all assumptions as untrue. March later said, “The suggestion [Annauds] that I actually slept with Tony Leung Ka-Fai while we were filming was a disgusting claim. [Annaud] tried to advertise his film with it. Nowadays I would handle this thing differently, but back when I was almost a kid it was very, very difficult for me. I felt taken advantage of by him. [...] After that, Jean-Jacques Annaud and I had no contact for several years. "
In the original version of the film, the voice of the narrator belongs to actress Jeanne Moreau .
Awards and nominations (selection)
- Best main actress
- Nomination in the category: Best Cinematography
- Best film score
- Nominations in the categories: Best Cinematography, Best Costumes, Best Production Design, Best Foreign Film
synchronization
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| the young girl | Jane March | Bianca Krahl |
| the Chinese | Tony Leung Ka Fai | Uwe Büschken |
| mother | Frédérique Meininger | Barbara Adolph |
| older brother | Arnaud Giovaninetti | Nicolas Boell |
| younger brother | Melvil Poupaud | |
| Helène Lagonelle | Lisa Faulkner | |
| Father of the Chinese | Xiem Mang | |
| Narrator | Jeanne Moreau | Eva Katharina Schultz |
Reviews
“Cinematographer Robert Fraisse composes every single shot with passion. The panoramic shots of Saigon and the Mekong are as gorgeous as paintings. The furnishings of Hoang Thanh At conjure up an atmosphere that makes the exotic flair of the colonial city tangible. The numerous love scenes may certainly not challenge some viewers. Annaud didn't exactly make an intellectual film from Dura's best-known book. But he managed to capture the feeling of a first passionate - but forbidden - love. "
“When in Annaud's film, in the back of the black limousine, the hands of Jane March and Tony Leung touch, perhaps one of the most erotic, because everything is still promising, scenes, then the betrayal is sealed. It is an almost natural betrayal of Marguerite Duras' story, inevitable, perhaps even necessary. Because Jean-Jacques Annaud not only had to [...] take on a novel and again a bestseller, but also with the real memories of his author. "
"[...] The next act must have survived an earthquake in the editing room. Now the violence is already tearing parts of the body apart. In the dramatic cut, love becomes brutal. […] Silent farewell at the harbor: a black steamer and a black limousine move away from each other. The Pacific gets between them. The rest is a plume of smoke. She graciously lowers herself over this dispassionate affair between a nymph and a phantom. "
“It is penetrating how, in the usual way, poverty and wealth are set off against each other in a picturesque outfit. Annaud tries to keep the calm and serenity of the milieu and climate of Indochina, but always believes the exoticism of the landscape, which is strange to us Western Europeans. "
literature
- Marguerite Duras : The Lover. Novel. The book about the film . (Original title: L'Amant ). Translated from the French by Ilma Rakusa . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-38129-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Lover . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; test number: 67 525 DVD).
- ^ Naked Came the Stranger by Juliann Garey Entertainment Weekly, November 6, 1992, accessed July 27, 2011
- ↑ a b c Promise and Treason Spiegel Online, accessed July 28, 2011
- ↑ a b Jean-Jaques Annaud - The adventurer among the directors Berliner Kurier, accessed on July 28, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e Steam From Saigon: Forget the Sex, Director Says - How About Those Hot Locations? by Jane Galbraith Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1992, accessed July 28, 2011
- ↑ Filminglocations IMDb.com, accessed 27 July 2011
- ↑ Release Dates IMDb.com, accessed July 28, 2011
- ↑ a b Jane March Biography IMDb.com, accessed July 28, 2011
- ^ Trivia IMDb.com, accessed July 27, 2011
- ↑ The Original Sinner by Grace Bradberry Evening Standard, January 23, 2004, accessed July 28, 2011
- ↑ The Lover - An Amour Fou in Saigon ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arte.tv, accessed on July 28, 2011
- ↑ Whole days in the beds ZEIT ONLINE, accessed on July 28, 2011
Web links
- The lovers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The lover in the online film database
- The lover atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Box Office Mojo box office results