settima

GérardDepardieu

Le camion [The Lorry] (Marguerite Duras, 1977)

Aug

16

indigo

Le camion (1977)

His Saviem, possibly an SM170. DP: Bruno Nuytten.

Indigo: a building or structure*

Him: It’s a film? Her: It would have been a film.

A truck, both the narrative structure and his (Depardieu's character) material representation. She – the director – and he – the lead actor – do a read-though while discussing her script. A communist truck driver picks up a female hitchhiker. They discuss the landscape, the cosmos, pointlessness, communism of course. All the while, the indigo truck plods on.

 

L'ingorgo [Traffic Jam] (Luigi Comencini, 1979)

Jul

12

L'ingorgo (1979)

Two middle-aged men in a car, each very much enjoying a small meal. We see them through the windshield with behind them numerous other cars stuck in traffic. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.