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Jun 13, 1999 · What “My Dinner With Andre” exploits is the well-known ability of the mind to picture a story as it is being told. Both Shawn and Gregory are born storytellers, and as they talk we see their faces, but we picture much more: Andre being buried alive, and a monk lifting himself by his fingertips, and fauns cavorting in a forest.
My Dinner With Andre. Comedy. 110 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1981. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1981. 4 min read. The idea is astonishing in its audacity: a film of two friends. talking, just simply talking—but with passion, wit, scandal, whimsy, vision, hope, and despair—for 110 minutes.
Old friends Wallace (Wallace Shawn) and Andre (Andre Gregory) haven't seen each another in five years and agree to meet for dinner. Andre, a once well-known theater director, dropped out of...
My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, and written by and starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn as fictionalized versions of themselves sharing a conversation at Café des Artistes in Manhattan.
My Dinner With Andre elevates the simple activity of conversation to a fine -- and lively -- art. It is a film rich in ideas and brimming with very honest humanity. Full Review | Nov 20, 2019
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. • 2 Wins & 2 Nominations. Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE is one of the greatest movies of all time because it works on a seemingly infinite number of levels. Yet at the same time it is one of the biggest failures in film because it only succeeds in connecting to the most insightful of its audience.
My Dinner With Andre Review. Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn appear to play themselves having dinner, with Shawn quizzing Andre about what his recent life and activities. by David...
My Dinner with André. In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Malle, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money ...
My Dinner with Andre. 83. Metascore. 15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 100. Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert. Like the listeners at the feet of a master storyteller, we find ourselves visualizing what Gregory describes, until this film is as filled with visual images as a radio play—more filled, perhaps, than a conventional feature film. 91.
