A cross-cultural romance constrained by family, society, and colonial dynamics, culminating in lifelong emotional resonance.
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.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Rating: 7/10 (767 votes)