The Lorry (1977)
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.
Director: Marguerite Duras
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Gérard Depardieu as lui |
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Marguerite Duras as elle |
| Directing | Marguerite Duras | Director |
| Sound | Ludwig van Beethoven | Music |
| Editing | Caroline Camus | Editor |
| Writing | Marguerite Duras | Writer |
| Sound | Michel Vionnet | Sound |
| Camera | Joël Quentin | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Jean-David Lefebvre | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Isabelle Adjani | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Pierre Barat | Producer |
| Camera | Eric Adjani | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Dominique Auvray | Editor |
| Production | François Barat | Producer |
| Camera | Bruno Nuytten | Director of Photography |
