The Lover

Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor French teenager who engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir (Tony Leung) 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.

Set in in 1929 Indochina, this Oscar-nominated drama follows a 15-year-old uninitiated French girl who's sent to a boarding school in Saigon, where she begins a passionate sexual relationship with a 32-year-old Chinese dandy.