The Lorry
1977 · 76 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 480 VOTES · DIR. Marguerite Duras
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 983 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:40 There was a road
00:07:03 And then she sings.
00:09:57 this desert space
00:12:57 dragging.
00:15:31 "Look."
00:19:14 geography
00:22:07 Strong.
00:25:18 It's true.
00:28:01 Yes.
00:30:20 It would advance. He argues.
00:34:22 Ie ...
00:37:11 Or?
00:39:22 Yes.
00:42:48 Yes.
00:45:07 This result
00:48:45 "Pierre Corneille."
00:51:03 "Childbirth is not not too bad.
00:53:09 "Without realizing it another happens.
00:55:19 "All discrimination
00:58:17 She closes her eyes.
01:01:40 No.
01:04:17 "Where you are mounted.
01:06:51 "It is more or less listened to.
01:11:09 They could not have existed that because of the other one.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed983
Dialogue density12.9 lines / min
First line00:02:40
Final line01:11:09
Production Record
DirectorMarguerite Duras
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes480