

Gradually, the love that has sustained them both begins to fracture. The Lover (French: LAmant) is a 1992 romantic drama film produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. In time, they are discovered by Jean-Marc, who is already disturbed by her fretfulness over not turning the heads of other men. Subject: Exoticism/Eroticism in Marguerite Durass The Lover and The Sea Wal. She hides the missives in a lingerie drawer. Indeed, Durass representation of the girl lover as a site of the parodic performance of the role of Woman under colonial patriarchy is linked in The Lover to the girls quest for sexual autonomy through both the hybridization of her racial identity and the reassertion of this identity as white. Imagination now takes over as Chantal invents identities for her ardent and poetic epistolarian.
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Yet "as he drew closer (his step suddenly much less urgent) the woman he thought was Chantal became old, ugly, pathetically ugly." When they return to Paris, Chantal receives the first of a series of letters from an anonymous admirer who signs himself C.D.B. Chantal has come to the hotel first, and when Jean-Marc arrives, he wanders the beach, looking for her. From the outset, their accounts of their past and present lives abound with questions over identity. The couple is on holiday at the time, staying at a hotel in a small town in Normandy. His tale turns on an offhand remark by Chantal, who tells her lover that she is worried that men no longer turn to look at her.

This is one of Kundera's points throughout. Marguerite Durass The Lover, a fictionalized memoir of her troubled adolescence in Indochina, is narrated fro Laurie Vickroy Journal of Evolutionary. Yet when "Identity" comes to its happy close, it is difficult to know what is real and what is imagined.
