My Dinner with Andre

Name: My Dinner with Andre
Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy
Released: October 11, 1981
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler, Wallace Shawn

1981

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: October 11, 1981 | PG

Starring: Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler, Wallace Shawn

Summary: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

Director: Louis Malle

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 110 min

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Roger 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. Read full review

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Gene Siskel

A picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie -- a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life. [11 Dec 1981]

Keith Phipps

Their talk feels as unforced as it is intense, but even that’s an illusion piled on top of an illusion. The film keeps returning to questions about the nature of reality and the function of performance, whether in theater or in everyday life. Read full review

Pauline Kael

This is a bizarre and surprisingly entertaining satirical comedy--the story of the search beyond theatre turned into theatre, or, at least, into a movie.

Joseph Jon Lanthier

The fact that people don’t talk like this in real life isn’t a flaw in the film: It’s a tragic social deficiency. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The synthesis is a revealing and extremely funny portrait of urban schizophrenia in the waning years of the twentieth century. [21 May 1982]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Louis Malle's somewhat overrated My Dinner With Andre is a filmed conversation between two friends, and whether you find the movie profound, pretentious, or entertaining will depend on how interesting you find the talk. Read full review

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