The Lorry (French: Le camion) or The Truck is a 1977 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras.

The Lorry
Directed byMarguerite Duras
Written byMarguerite Duras
Produced byFrançois Barat
Pierre Barat
StarringMarguerite Duras
Gérard Depardieu
CinematographyBruno Nuytten
Edited byDominique Auvray
Release date
  • 25 May 1977 (1977-05-25)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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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]

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."[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Lorry". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
  2. ^ a b "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.
  3. ^ Duras, Marguerite, Godard, Jean Luc, Duras-Godard, NY: Film Desk Books: 2020.
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