![]() This sombre quality dignifies an otherwise shoddily directed movie. She will become a writer, and has developed the strength to avoid both the predatoriness of her mother and the romantic dependence of her lover. 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. The Young Girl, altogether too complex for the inexperienced March to do more than simply embody, was then in the process of taking her life into her own hands. A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For all the footage of glistening flesh - most of the film takes place in a darkened room where the two explore the realm of the senses - this is basically a melancholic piece about the remembrance of times, places and passions lost (with voice-over narration by Jeanne Moreau). Thus meet the Young Girl (March) and the Chinaman (Leung) referred to in Marguerite Duras's assumedly autobiographical '80s novel (controversially, Annaud opted for a GĂ©rard Brach script rather than Duras' own). With exquisite Parisian manners he offers her a lift to her lowly Saigon boarding-house. Observing her is an elegant, rich Chinese. ![]() A 15-year-old schoolgirl leans wistfully on the rail of a ferryboat crossing the Mekong. ![]()
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