Étienne is a truck driver with no personal life. All he does is drive from place to place. His only human contact is the anonymous sex he has around the truck stops. However when he meets a driver from Poland his world changes and he begins to wonder if the isolated life is really for him.
This is a beautifully made, wonderfully acted film about a life most of us never really consider. What is it like to be a driver, and how do you have any sort of contact with anyone if you are in constant motion. This is a film I really liked in many ways.
The problem for me is that I never really connected with the film. It is not the subject matter, rather it is because Etienne is largely a closed off guy. He has lived a solitary life and there are silences and pauses here you would find in the life of a man who is alone a lot. That makes it a great piece of acting, but it also makes it hard to connect. By the time the character begins to open up I was too far way to fall in love with the film.
Understand this is a film I think is a great film, but at the same time it didn't fully work for me.
Definitely worth a look.
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