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.
Directed by: Marguerite Duras
Written by: Marguerite Duras
Music by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Marguerite Duras
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1977-05-27
Runtime: 76 minutes
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