The Lover (1992)

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.

• 1920s
• age difference
• arranged marriage
• based on novel
• cult film
• desire
• forbidden love
• indochina
• lolita
• loss of virginity
• love
• lover
• lust
• older man younger woman relationship
• sex
• sexual attraction
• sexual awakening
• statutory rape
• vietnam
• virgin