Le Camion (Duras, 1977): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the excellent Marguerite Duras season at the ICA (full details here) and is also being screened on August 7th.
New Yorker review:
Marguerite Duras's control of film technique here suggests that she has
become a master. But there's a joker in her mastery: though her moods
and cadences and her rhythmic phrasing, with its emotional undertow,
might seem ideally suited to the medium, they don't fulfill moviegoers'
expectations. There are only two people in this film: Duras herself and
G�rard Depardieu, and they sit at a round table in a room in her home,
and never leave it. Serene, half-smiling, she reads aloud the script of
a film in which Depardieu would act the role of a truck driver who
picks up a woman hitchhiker. The film alternates between sequences in
the room and sequences of a rolling truck, seen always at a distance.
Each time Duras cuts from the room to the truck, we're drawn into the
hypnotic flow of the road imagery--we half-dream our way into a "real"
movie--and each time she pulls us back into the room we feel an
emotional wrench, a rude awakening. Duras makes us aware of our
mechanisms of response, and it's tonic and funny to feel the tensions
she provokes. Her picture has been thought out with such supple
discrimination between the values of sound and image that you could
almost say it's perfectly made--an ornery, glimmering achievement.
Pauline Kael
Here (and above) are the opening credits.
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