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If whispered monologues were currency, The Lover would settle the national debt.
“Even the credits needed a rewrite.”
— THE DEVIL TOMATO
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1992 · Drama / Romance
The Lover
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
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.
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RELEASE DATE
1992
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GENRE
Drama / Romance
PLOT SUMMARY
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.
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@ROW_F_REGRET2026-01-23 07:00 UTC
If The Lover was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.
@ENDING_LEAKS2026-01-11 11:00 UTC
The Lover has the emotional range of a fridge magnet.
@SCREEN_SHADE2026-01-05 08:00 UTC
The chemistry in The Lover is so flat it would fail a high-school lab report.
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r/TrueFilm · u/ExpositionDump🔥 3.3k points
The cinematography in The Lover is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Director clearly thought The Lover was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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r/boxoffice · u/ReelTalkRanter🔥 2.0k points
Unpopular opinion: The Lover is the most overrated film of the decade
Rewatched The Lover last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.
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r/movies · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 1.8k points
Hot Take: The Lover's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Look, I wanted to love The Lover. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/flicks · u/CinephileCynic🔥 2.8k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Lover actually is?
Honestly, The Lover would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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