The Lorry (1977)

  • TP
  • 05/27/1977 (FR)
  • Drama, Romance
  • 1h 16m

Overview

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.

Marguerite Duras

Director, Writer

Cast

Gérard Depardieu's headshot

Gérard Depardieu

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Marguerite Duras's headshot

Marguerite Duras

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