The Truck (1977) review

Novelist/playwright/filmmaker Duras sits down with actor Gérard Depardieu to go over her new screenplay involving a truck driver picking up a female hitchhiker, and while she's talking, there is footage of an actual truck riding around the industrial parts of France.  Many will probably dismiss this as a patience-testing piece of metafiction - the Cannes crowd was apparently not particularly 'entertained' by it during its premiere - but those who indulge in her deconstructionist whimsy could find themselves unexpectedly drawn in by the low-key but hypnotic narrative about loneliness in modern society.  For those who have read any of her works, it has that same sensual, dream-like quality and, considering the strange way the human imagination and memories work, days after watching it some viewers - I'm including myself here - might be able to "reassemble" the "story" in their own minds, and imagine Depardieu behind the wheel and Marguerite right alongside him.