The Lorry (1977)

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.

Release Date : May 27, 1977

Runtime : 1h 16m

Genre : Drama  Romance  

Companies : Auditel, Cinéma 9

Countries : France

Keywords : woman director