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越南湄公河
The Lover 情人
The primary characters are known only as The Young Girl and The Chinese Man. The daughter of bitter, fearful, poverty-stricken colonials, she is a pretty waif who likes to wear an old silk dress and a man's fedora and paint her lips bright red when out of her mother's sight. She hates everything about her existence — her teachers, her fellow students, and most of all her depraved, dysfunctional family.
The son of a Chinese businessman whose fortune was made in real estate, has recently returned from Paris after dropping out of school. He has the look but lacks the self-assurance of the playboy he fancies himself to be, and he is mesmerized the first time he sees her standing by the rail on a crowded ferry crossing the Mekong River...
1929年的越南是法國殖民地，簡（珍瑪琪飾）是一個15歲的法國少女，在西貢女子寄宿學校讀書。每逢假期簡便回家，母親辦了一所很小的學校，收入甚少。簡有兩個哥哥，大哥比爾吸毒成癮且橫行霸道，二哥保羅生性懦弱，常受大哥的欺負。一天簡一如往常一樣告別母親乘上渡船回學校。在船上遇到一個坐黑色大轎車的闊少爺東尼（梁家輝飾）。東尼是華僑富翁的獨生子。東尼喜歡這名白人少女便去搭訕，倆人便搭上了。簡在寄宿學校里知道有的女生在外賣淫，她也想找個有錢人試試，因此很主動與東尼交談，上岸后兩人逛了西貢，還一起上館子吃中國飯菜。東尼并用汽車送她回學校。第二天剛放學，黑色汽車就等在校門口了。簡和東尼很快就墜入愛河。東尼把簡帶到他的公館，這是中國富人們常用來金屋藏嬌的地方。他倆在這里幽會、洗澡、玩耍。有時晚上也不回學校，校方只好通知她的母親，然而……
推薦理由：殘陽凄艷、瑰麗悲愴，一條浪漫傷感的河流。坐船行駛于湄公河上能夠如此慢慢體會越南的生活，體會著風土人情，也能夠體會浪漫而又傷感的愛情故事。
