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The Lorry

6.4(22)19771h 16m3

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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French
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  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP27 May 1977
    • Physical17 Feb 2021

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The Lorry was released on 27 May 1977.

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