El amante

SINOPSIS

In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl (Jane March) embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man (Tony Leung Ka Fai), each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Colonial French Indochina, late 1920s: a fifteen-year-old French girl (Jane March) returns to Saigon, where she attends a girls’ boarding school. On her way there, she meets a handsome, wealthy and much older Chinese man (Tony Leung Ka Fai) from a respectable family. Going against the conventions of their respective societies, the lustful pair begin a passionate affair. Their strong attraction toward one another is only intensified by the illicit nature of their rendezvous.