I saw this movie for the first time a few years back, on video. But I didn't know what to expect. Though after I finished watching it, I saw that it was Marguerite Duras autobiography of her teenage years. Which also led me to read the book last year. Marguerite Duras (at 15) was trying to escape the abuse, from her family and found comfort in this man (at 30)who was also trapped due to family tradition. These 2 people found comfort with one another. Jane March & Tony Leung(both very talented) completely captured the love expression toward one another that Marguerite Duras was trying to proyect in the film. Also by using love making as a way to communicate to one another what they were too scare to say in their own words. If all you saw was sex, then you really didn't understand the movie. At the end of Duras' autobiography, she reunites with him at the end of his life(before he dies) and realizes that she really loved him.
Review of The Lover
