The Lorry
1977 film
- 25 May 1977 (1977-05-25)
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The Lorry (French: Le camion) or The Truck is a 1977 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras.
Reaction
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]
Cast
- Marguerite Duras as Her
- Gérard Depardieu as Him
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Lorry". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Duras, Marguerite, Godard, Jean Luc, Duras-Godard, NY: Film Desk Books: 2020.
External links
- The Lorry at IMDb
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Marguerite Duras
- The Sea Wall
- Moderato Cantabile
- Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night
- The Ravishing of Lol Stein
- The Malady of Death
- The Lover
- La Douleur
- Blue Eyes, Black Hair
- Hiroshima mon amour
- La Musica
- Destroy, She Said
- Nathalie Granger
- India Song
- Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta
- The Lorry
- The Children
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