The Lorry

• Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Marguerite Duras
• Duration: 76 minutes
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Rating: 6.2/10
• Release Date: 1977-05-27

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.