The Lover is a 1992 movie based on this novel, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Jane March and Tony Leung Ka Fai. The cast also included Lisa Faulkner. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. A radio dramatisation, starring Diana Quick and Olivia Hallinan, which was rather more faithful to Marguerite Duras's novel than the film, was broadcast in September 2007.

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