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Plot

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.
MPAA Rating:
R
Genre(s):
Art and Experimental
Run Time:
80min.
Theatrical Release Date:
07/02/2007
Director(s):
Marguerite Duras
Starring:
Marguerite Duras , Gérard Depardieu
Tone:
Cerebral,Deliberate,Enigmatic,Reflective,Stylized,Talky
Keywords:
actor,behind-enemy-lines,director,filmmaker,hitchhiker,truckdriver