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The Lover (1992)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 3/20

TheLove
3/20: The Lover is about sex, sex, sex, sex, and sex.

Have I missed anything else? Good, that's settled. The sole reason why I picked it up is Jane March. She hadn't been in a notable film besides Color of Night. What the heck happened to her afterwards?

Well, going back to what I said, The Lover is all about Jane getting it on with Tony Leung many times. There's no doubt that the sex was for real. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud says otherwise, but I don't believe him. Yet where's everything else? Where is the story? What am I watching the film for? Why do I need to see a man and a woman having sex? But is that what pornos are for?

The cinematography is fine, but the two characters wearing the same nice-looking clothes, exactly as displayed in the movie poster, every single day is tiresome. They need a bigger wardrobe.

All in all, please, Jean-Jacques...produce a story, or the film dies.