Jean-Jacques Annaud directs Jane March, “Big” Tony Leung and Jeanne Moreau in this erotic period drama covering the illicit affair between a teenage French girl and a wealthy Chinese heir in colonial Vietnam.

All hail The Sinner From Pinner. Jane March. She’s is actually very good here – carrying the complex emotions and, of course, she looks amazing in every state of undress. As sensuous as this is lensed both on-location and in the bonking studio, the international dubbing does let it down. It aligns something quite artful and poignant with a seedier, cheaper product. We wouldn’t want our sex films being tawdry now would we? If a subtitled version existed in the U.K. then this might improve on another revisit. The histrionic scenes with her manic, parasitic family really grate in their current state. We are supposed to hate them… but maybe not THIS much?!

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Perfect Double Bill: The Color Of Night (1994)

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