IMDB RATING
⭐ 6.2
Title: The Lorry
Genre: Drama, Romance
Duration: 76 MINS
Year: 1977
Language: French
Quality: 4K Ultra HD

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.

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