The Lorry
| The Lorry | |
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| Directed by | Marguerite Duras |
| Written by | Marguerite Duras |
| Produced by | François Barat Pierre Barat |
| Starring | Marguerite Duras Gérard Depardieu |
| Cinematography | Bruno Nuytten |
| Edited by | Dominique Auvray |
| Distributed by | Films Molière |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
The Lorry (French: Le camion) or The Truck is a 1977 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras.
Plot
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Reaction
[edit | edit source]Le camion was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
After the Cannes debut, the crowd reacted "at first with highly vocal disbelief and the with outbursts of anger, and walk-outs" and even those "charmed by her harmonious, lulling use of the film medium ... have, buried under a few layers, the rebellious instincts that others [gave] loud voice to."[2]
Following the showing, Duras stood atop a flight of stairs while a crowd yelled insults at her.[2] Critic of the time, Pauline Kael wrote that she believed that Duras enjoyed antagonizing the crowd. [2]
It later opened at The New York Film Festival. [3]
In an interview with Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard praised the film for the way that it "lets the text come through but also carries it."[4]
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Marguerite Duras as Her
- Gérard Depardieu as Him
Reception
[edit | edit source]Pauline Kael for The New Yorker wrote that in La Camion Dumas "has become a master" and that the film is a split between "her artistry and what the public wants...pointed up and turned against the audience." She praises the film as the "opposite extreme from popcorn filmmaking, it's the demonstration of creative force."[3]
References
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- ^ a b c "Marguerite Duras" by Pauline Kael. Originally published in The New Yorker (1977). Collected in The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael edited Sanford Schwarts, The Library of America, 2011, pp 552–556.
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- ^ Duras, Marguerite, Godard, Jean Luc, Duras-Godard, NY: Film Desk Books: 2020.
External links
[edit | edit source]- The Lorry at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
