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Summary: goof hot collectable
Review: a couple of scenes in this one can be viewed over and over and again..Highly recomended
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Summary: Disturbingly 'Romantic'
Review: 'The Lover', starring Jane March, has excellent direction and cinematography, and the acting is very smooth. Its true-to-time and place imagery is also quite captivating. However, the 'innocence lost' ethos goes overboard, with one-too-many sex scenes between an underage girl and an older French Indo-Chinaman. Adapting this story to film creates this inherent problem- how do you keep the story engaging without making it look like 'illegal' (read- 'child') soft porn. There's one scene in particular where the girl is essentially raped, and, the way the film progresses thenceforth, it is as if we are supposed to accept this offensive assault as an acceptable part of their relationship. I think people give this film 5 stars because they get swept away with the romantic reverie, while overlooking the reprehensible pedophilic realities.
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Summary: A beautiful coming of age movie
Review: This is one of my favorite movies of all time and I still cry every time I see it. It is sexually explicit, but the scenes are erotic, artsy, and beautiful. Yet, this movie is more than a tool for foreplay. It is a delicate love story, a story of two people who could never be together due to differences in race, age, religion, and culture. Although they know from the beginning their relationship cannot last, each dives in anyway.
This is one of the few coming of age stories that centers around a girl, and the only one I can think of that centers around her sexual growth. Through her tricky attempt to maintain a separation of her physical form and emotional state, she learns the hard way that the mind-body connection is strong.
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Summary: buy it for the soundtrack alone!
Review: Beautifully filmed "Asian" themed story, of young love. No over the top sexual scenes...everything is tastfully shot and acted. The soundtrack is so haunting and beautiful, I rushed out to purchase it on CD! I enjoyed the director's ability to capture the times of pre-war Vietnam. Jane March is a beautiful young actress...unfortunately, we have not seen her since this film, in any other serious acting roles. Where have you gone Jane? While not as erotic or exciting as the classic 1974 "Emmanuel" or 1975's "The Image", this film holds its own with those two fine erotic films. I understand there is an "unrated" version of this film available somewhere on VHS...if so, that would probably be the one to purchase. Even though its picture quality would not be as good as a DVD. The "R" rated version is very tame sexually. Still, I highly recommend this fine foreign film, if for only the mood it presents and the soundtrack's lovely melody...which will remain with you and impress you, as much as Jane's lovely young body does.
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Summary: Standard, if well-made, erotic movie.
Review: "The Lover" is an intriguing and sexy film. It presents a fairly standard story of a girl trapped in an all-girls school who gets out (after a lesbian fling with another student, of course) and is afterwards taught the finer points of sexuality by an older male lover. This is really nothing more than standard cable TV fare, but it's filmed in soft, natural light and exotic exteriors which help add to the atmosphere of eroticism. Not a bad, if somewhat generic, release.
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Summary: the most EROTIC movie i have ever seen
Review: this is one of my favorite movies of all time...erotic love story at its best...also, there is another version of this dvd..i bought it off of ebay awhile back from vietnam or thailand..it is region free, i noticed some scenes were cut off, but that's not really the point, this import dvd has a "making of" the movie..it runs over an hour!!, it has the director selecting who should be the female lead, how he selected tony leung..it is awesome!!!!so yeah, i bought the us version dvd and this import dvd...this is a great movie.....
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Summary: THE HANDSOME CHINESE LOVER!
Review: This film is my most favorite. I could watch it over and over again. This movie is a must see. This guy is so sexy, and so is his sex scenes with Jane March. But Ms. March looked more like she was younger than 18. Her thin frail body was quite hard to watch. At any rate, this is my favorite soft erotic very dramatically moving film; it's definitely worth buying.
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Summary: where is the region 2 dvd?????????????????
Review: loved the film when it came out
but where is the full un cut version on dvd region 2 would be nice too!
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Summary: Don't Read the "Editorial" Review
Review: This film version of Marguerite Duras' book tells a lovely story about race and class. The characters are willing to cross those "societal" lines, but only to a certain point. It leaves you wishing that they had the guts to follow their true desires, even if it means ditching the expectations of others. I won't give away the ending, but this story is FAR more than "soft porn". Maybe to the uneducated, it is just that. To the more open-minded, it's a tale about crossing boundaries and the wonders you'll discover when you do. You also see the down-side to that, which leaves you questioning why society has a hierarchy based such superficiality.
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Summary: Don't be fooled by its pretention to "Art"
Review: This movie is beautifully photographed and well acted and based on a short novel people love. So is it Art? No. It's soft-core faux kiddie porn. The girl is barely a woman -- her thin frame and flat chest turn the nude love scenes between her and a mature man into scenarios of child statutory rape.... If you disagree, consider it without the sexuality. Not much left, is there? (And don't say the sex is necessary. Why wasn't it necessary in American films for the first fifty years?)
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