Andre from “My Dinner with Andre”
March 9th, 2007
No reason - Because it is Friday.
“My dinner with Andre” is one of my favorite movies… If I’m not mistaken I had to go to
Read Roger Ebert’s review here.
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Directed by Louis Malle Produced by George W. George, Beverly Karp
Written by Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn
Starring Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn
Distributed by New Yorker Films Release date(s) October 11, 1981
Running time 110 min. Language English
My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 movie starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, written by Gregory and Shawn, and directed by Louis Malle.
The film consists almost entirely of a long conversation between two acquaintances in a chic restaurant in New York City. It is based largely on actual conversations between Gregory and Shawn, and covers such subjects as experimental theatre, the nature of theatre, and the nature of reality. The movie was filmed in an abandoned hotel in Virginia.
The dialogue contrasted Shawn's modest down-to-earth humanism against Gregory's extravagant spiritual experiences and fantasies. Although the film was based on actual events in the actors' lives, Shawn and Gregory denied (in an interview by film critic Roger Ebert) that they were playing themselves, and stated that if they remade the film they would swap the two characters to prove their point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZ0l-uir6s
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