Camera Operator
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.
Second Assistant Camera
A esposa de um desonrado diplomata francês sofre de “lepra da alma,” outro termo para tédio. Por meio de uma mistura de fofocas fora de tela, ficamos sabendo da conduta escandalosa de Anne-Marie na Índia dos anos 30 e seu destino fatal gerado pelo tédio e pela culpa colonial.
