Oh, those whacky French! Quelle goofs! Only they could come up with a story in which a 32-year-old man seduces and enjoys delirious sexual congress with a 16-year-old girl and end it with the man .… ...

Just as erotic as ”Basic Instinct” but much more intimate, Jean-Jacques Annaud`s ”The Lover” accomplishes something no American film has in quite some time, it has turned us… ...