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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 27, 1977
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Director
- Marguerite Duras
- Writer
- Marguerite Duras
- Producer
- François Barat,Pierre Barat
- Cinematography
- Bruno Nuytten
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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