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The Lorry (1977)
Directed by Marguerite Duras
Drama, Romance · 1h 16m
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That's all -- there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.
Cast
Gérard Depardieu
Marguerite Duras
Crew
- Director
- Marguerite Duras
- Writer
- Marguerite Duras
- Director of Photography
- Bruno Nuytten
- Editor
- Caroline Camus, Dominique Auvray
- Producer
- Pierre Barat, François Barat
Details
- Original title
- Le Camion
- Release date
- 1977-05-27
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Auditel, Cinéma 9