The Lorry

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The Lorry
Le-camion.jpg
Directed by Marguerite Duras
Written byMarguerite Duras
Produced byFrançois Barat
Pierre Barat
StarringMarguerite Duras
Gérard Depardieu
Cinematography Bruno Nuytten
Edited byDominique Auvray
Distributed byFilms Molière
Release date
  • 25 May 1977 (1977-05-25)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Lorry". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
  2. 1 2 "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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