The Lorry
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.
- Year : 1977
- Country : France
- Genre : Drama, Romance
- Studio : Auditel, Cinéma 9
- Keyword : woman director
- Director : Marguerite Duras
- Cast : Gérard Depardieu, Marguerite Duras