The Lover Dir. Jean-Jaques Annaud

The Lover Dir. Jean-Jaques Annaud

Anna urick

The first thing I noticed and liked about this movie is the actul filming. It creates a shows strong emotion coupled with lighting to intensify even the first scenes. I liked the filming where objets were placed on the screen and what the director focused on during the voice overlays like the river shots when she’s on the ferry. I liked the music and closeups during the cut aways between their hands and faces during the car scene. And the final scenes with the smoke over the water as her ship leaves.

            This was a very emotional and troubled plotline between the two lovers. He deeply loved her but she continued to say she was only in it for the money. He also had an arranged marriage taking place in the near future while her future at the time looked bleak. At the end of the movie when she realizes she is truly separated from him, she realizes how much she really did love him and breaks down and cries for the first time in the film.

            She also had other struggles including her family and schoollife. Her older brother was abusive and controlled what happened in the family. Her mother was depressed and her younger brother seemed depressed and sad by their family life. At the end we hear the youngest brother, the one she loved died. At school no one would speak to her after the affair and called her different names and generally avoided coming in contact with her.

            She finally leaves and moves to France where she gets her dream to write novels although she is never reunited with the Chinaman.

            This was an interesting film to watch, it was notexactly what I was expecting. The plotline was deeper and more complex than I thought it would be. Certain scenes were more graphic than I imagined also. Overall I liked the movie and thought the characters and plotline were well written and the filming was done very well to heighten the emotion taking place.