Rent My Dinner with Andre (1981)
3.5 of 5 from 133 ratings
1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
"My Dinner with Andre" is a passionate, volatile and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner. Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theatre director and playwright in search of life's meanings and spiritual revelations. His friend, Wally Shawn, is an actor and playwright living in New York who is more preoccupied with the search for his next meal. As Andre recounts his global journeys involving esoteric theatrical experiments and mystical adventures, Wally listens with more skepticism, as his attitudes shift through wonder, puzzlement, admiration, and anger. What finally emerges is a sensitive portrait of a friendship that survives and transcends beliefs of love, death, art, and man's continuing quest for self-fulfillment. - Actors:
- Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler
- Directors:
- Louis Malle
- Producers:
- George W. George, Beverly Karp
- Writers:
- Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory
- Aka:
- My Dinner with André
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 14/08/2017
- Run Time:
- 110 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo, French LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (2) of My Dinner with Andre
A man has a mid-life crisis and won’t shut up about it. - My Dinner with Andre review by NK
I was surprised to discover that this is not a French film but very much an American movie about two New Yorkers catching up in a New York restaurant. I stuck with it through to the end, partly out of respect for Louis Malle and partly because it raised some interesting points about the nature of life - specifically whether the comforts and conveniences of modern life insulate us from feeling truly alive with the kind of intensity you might feel after a near-death experience.
However it quickly descended into a litany of, “When I was in Tibet..... When I was in the Sahara.... When I was in Israel... when I was... when I was.... etc.”
My advice would be not to accept an invitation to dinner from Andre. He’ll probably pick up the tab but he really is an insufferable bore.
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Savour the flavour - My Dinner with Andre review by RC
Like the other reviewer there were moments for me when it felt like Andre was going on a bit, but by the end of the film it’s allegorical power and charm started to come through, as a film which may help us to attune to the ‘Wally’ and ‘Andre’ in all of us and the compulsions and openings that life may bring. Bon appetit!
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