My Dinner with Andre
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“We can't be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things”
Overview
A truly unique film made with incredible lightness of touch by Louis Malle (Au revoir les enfants), My Dinner with Andre manages to make a conversation as riveting as the most high-stakes cinema. Old friends André Gregory and Wallace Shawn (co-screenwriters playing fictionalised versions of themselves) meet in an upscale New York City restaurant, and talk about- well, pretty much everything. Over several courses the men discuss the reasons for estrangement in their friendship, their theatre careers, hopes, disappointments and a changing relationship with art and money.
Why You Should See This Film
Introspective, suffused with deep warmth and humour, My Dinner with Andre takes what should be an unfilmable premise and transforms it into something endlessly rewatchable. Despite Malle's sophisticated shooting style and the years of script development, the ebb and flow of conversation between Shawn and Gregory feels organic as the world shrinks to their dinner table. Often referenced but never bettered in its own peculiar niche, 45 years on this remains a little marvel.
BFFs
This film plays as part of our BFFs film series of best friends, frenemies, toxic bromances and so much more. Enjoy the second-hand emotions of watching people who love and love to hate each other, in allegedly platonic ways.
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