Le Camion
/
Der Lastwagen
director:
Marguerite Duras
playwright:
Marguerite Duras
actor:
Gérard Depardieu
/
Marguerite Duras
genre:
Drama
/
Romance
region:
France
language:
French
length: 1h 16m
release date:
1977-05-27
(Release)
IMDb: tt0075799
Le Camion
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.