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L'Amant (The Lover) influenced The Lover
Added by Media Influence Map · 12 October 2026
The evidence
Jean-Jacques Annaud's film is based on Marguerite Duras's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of a French girl's affair with a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 Indochina.
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