

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: André Is an Idiot with director Tony Benna
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Filmmaker Tony Benna joins us in person for a post-screening discussion!

Unexpected, irreverent, and defiantly heartfelt, ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT is a wildly life-affirming film about death and about the strange clarity that arrives when time suddenly becomes finite. When André Ricciardi, a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him, learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity. A lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur, André has never done anything the conventional way, and confronting mortality proves no different: he picks up a camera, cracks a joke, and begins to ask the biggest questions of his life with disarming candor.

In a deeply collaborative partnership with director Tony Benna, André’s inner world—his stories, fears, philosophies, and absurdist imagination—is brought to life through fantastical stop-motion animation woven into vérité footage. These animated interludes illuminate the way André processes both joy and dread, transforming the film into a playful yet profound portrait of a man determined to face death as openly and ridiculously as he has lived.

ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT is ultimately a celebration of resilience, creative audacity, and the kind of fearless humor that refuses to let darkness have the last word. It invites audiences to rethink what “normal” looks like in the face of sickness and loss—and to consider that sometimes, the best way to survive life’s cruelties is simply to laugh at them.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/amherst/andré-is-an-idiot-with-director-tony-benna/200029846674928
- **Event Categories**: Entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://amherstcinema.org/films-and-events/andre-idiot?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=amherst-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Amherst
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 28 Amity St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002
- **lat**: 42.37539
- **long**: -72.52047
- **full address**: 28 Amity St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Amherst Cinema (https://allevents.in/org/amherst-cinema/8564104)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 28 Amity St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Amherst Cinema
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about André Is an Idiot with director Tony Benna ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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