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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Marguerite Duras Director · Bruno Nuytten Cinematographer Dominique Auvray Editor
First release May 27, 1977 · Produced in France · Production Cinéma 9
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Auditel
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Cinéma 9
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France
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Original title
Le Camion
Original language
French
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French
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France · May 27, 1977
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February 17, 2021 · Physical
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