France,
1977, 76 min
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Short sentences avoid description. Marguerite Duras reads aloud and Gérard Depardieu is her truck driver. Shots of the two protagonists sitting at a table alternate with shots of the truck cab, where no one is sitting. Occasionally we see a passing landscape. As time passes and it slowly gets darker, Duras and Depardieu begin casually talking about cigarettes… The Truck is a brilliant piece of cinema on how to work intuitively with time, length, pause, text, voice and music. The Truck is often described as a portrait film, here a metaphor for a road that doesn't stumble. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Marguerite Duras
Best movies:
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The Lorry (1977)
Gérard Depardieu
France
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