Le Camion
by Marguerite Duras1h161977France
Recommended byChristophe Honoré, Agnès Varda, Alice Diop
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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.
Credits
- Production Compagny : Auditel, Cinéma 9
- Sound Recorder : Michel Vionnet
- Editing : Dominique Auvray, Caroline Camus
- Photo Director : Bruno Nuytten
- Producer : François Barat
- Director : Marguerite Duras
- Scenario : Marguerite Duras
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1977
- French release date : 25 mai 1977
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : French
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By the same director
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Aurélia Steiner
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Le Navire night
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From the same year
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Passe-montagne
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With the same cast
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Le Navire night
by Marguerite Duras1979France1h30 - See the film page
India Song
by Marguerite Duras1974France2h00 - See the film page
The Negative Hands
by Marguerite Duras1979France0h14
Gérard Depardieu
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La Chèvre
by Francis Veber1981France1h35 - See the film page
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