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L'amant (1992) Plus avec IMDbPro »

• The film is based on the autobiographical novel by French author Margueite Duras, whose youthful, real life romance with a Chinese man in colonial Vietnam caused a scandal.
  
  
• Duras' real Chinese lover was called Lee.
  
  
• The Chopin valse played on the steamer Alexandre Dumas is Valse #10, opus posth. 69 Nr. 2.
  
  
• Jean-Jacques Annaud's paycheck was £1.1 million.
  
  
• Cécile Fleury said that she was the body double of Jane March for some nude scenes of this film. But the spokesman of Renn Productions (which produced this film) said to Daily Mail that Cécile Fleury was only a stand-in for technical purposes - a common practice to spare a film's stars from tiring sessions under studio lights while scenes are set up. "This girl was only used for lighting purposes when scenes were being set up. She has not been used in the shooting at all," the Renn Productions spokesman said.
  
  
• Jane March denied that she and Tony Leung Ka Fai actually made love. (March: "I never had sex with Tony on or off the set. It's as simple as that.") All the sex scenes were done with careful choreography and body doubles. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud falsely implied the sex was real to boost publicity for the film, thus the sex-crazed English tabloid press trumpeted the rumor on its front pages for days, making life so miserable for March and her family that she got physically sick and had a nervous breakdown. March then fled to the Seychelles to escape. Annaud later stated the sex was not real, "At first I was flattered people believed [the sex]. But after that... I stopped doing press in Britain. Of course they didn't have sex."
  
  
• Director Jean-Jacques Annaud carefully choreographed the sex scenes to appear believable.
  
  

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