The Lorry

In this most talky and personal of films director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an oncamera readthrough of a movie script Occasionally the director comments about the characters or their motivations and sometimes the actor does Thats 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 blankslate 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