在这部卡车剧情/爱情片中,由杜拉斯和影星热拉尔·德帕迪约扮演的两个角色坐在门窗紧闭的房间里，杜拉斯讲述着一部电影，电影里的女人搭上一辆卡车，与司机滔滔不绝地聊了一个小时二十分钟。谈话不时切换到卡车绕着巴黎行驶和停下来让女人搭顺风车的镜头。德帕迪约就是卡车司机，杜拉斯就是搭车的女人。对一部潜在电影的口头描述和电影可能形成的图像两者并置起来。
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.
謀殺電影的小說家—杜哈絲《貨車》。与米歇尔·波尔特谈话录。卡车。在路上。影像的消解——《卡车》。
