The Lorry

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Gérard Depardieu

lui

Age : 75 | Popularity : 50%

Marguerite Duras

elle

Age : 81 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music	Ludwig van Beethoven
	Sound	Michel Vionnet
Directing	Script Supervisor	Isabelle Adjani
	Director	Marguerite Duras
	Assistant Director	Jean-David Lefebvre
Editing	Editor	Dominique Auvray Caroline Camus
Writing	Writer	Marguerite Duras
Camera	Director of Photography	Bruno Nuytten
	Camera Operator	Eric Adjani Joël Quentin
Production	Producer	Pierre Barat François Barat
Department	Role	Name

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