In a film where nothing happens, everything happens. A remarkably prescient, honest, and audacious piece of cinema written by its stars Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, two friends who sit down to dinner and talk: about their careers, politics, society, the meaning of life–and everything in between.
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MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, (Directed by Louis Malle • 1981, 110 mins, Starring Wallace Shawn, André Gregory)
In this captivating, inventive, and philosophical film written by its stars Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, two old friends sit down for dinner at a restaurant in New York City. Over bites of food the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Exceptional and acclaimed on its release, 45 years later MY DINNER WITH ANDRE now feels even more astonishing - a remarkably prescient, honest, and audacious piece of influential filmmaking (The New York Times called it “the original podcast”).
CRITICAL ACCLAIM:
Roger Ebert thought it was revelatory, the only movie “entirely devoid of clichés.” In his review of the film, Gene Siskel, who named it one of the best films of 1981, said, “When these two guys finally sit down to dinner, the film takes off into intellectual outer space...this is what I want films to be like. Here we are, with Hollywood cinema spending tens of millions of dollars to faithfully recreate towns and villages and everything else, and here: with people talking at a dinner table, it's just as fascinating, even more so.”
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