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
00:07:31 We should have seen the truck cab.
00:10:09 would have been considered.
00:13:21 I read this:
00:15:56 It shows the sea
00:19:40 "Nothing but dead lands
00:22:36 "This is the only policy."
00:26:09 He said: "You lie.
00:28:49 Inseparable, day and night
00:31:05 It is blue.
00:35:17 His habits are accurate.
00:38:04 And their confinement in the truck cab
00:41:35 All material in nature.
00:44:06 Their identical purpose.
00:46:47 Between the vines ...
00:49:53 "He had to. It had become too small
00:52:20 "Trees are blown off.
00:54:29 "I think the child is called Abraham.
00:57:20 Know she would have said not to exist.
01:00:12 Invented.
01:03:52 "Where do you come to the end?"
01:06:32 someone would have said:
01:10:24 "Let him go to ruin."
01:15:00 And then it stopped.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed983
Dialogue density12.9 lines / min
First line00:02:40
Final line01:15:00
Production Record
DirectorMarguerite Duras
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes480