The Lorry
(1977)
★ 6.4 IMDb · 22 votes
Year: 1977
Runtime: 76 мин
Country: France
Director: Marguerite Duras
Cast: Жерар Депардье, Marguerite Duras
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.