The Lorry (movie)
Le Camion- User score: 6.4
- Production country: France
- Producer: Marguerite Duras
- Production companies: Auditel, Cinéma 9
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Release date: 5/27/1977
- Run time: 76 min.
Movie description
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.
