My Dinner With Andre
Screening on Film
Directed by Louis Malle.
With Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer.
US, 1981, 35mm, color, 110 min.
With Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer.
US, 1981, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Theater director Andre Gregory embarks on a spiritual quest that takes him around the world, and upon his return he has dinner with his friend, playwright-actor Wallace Shawn. In a film that is often hilarious and perceptive, sometimes touching but always engaging and entertaining, Gregory and Shawn talk, banter, and philosophize over their meal. Though My Dinner with Andre feels like eavesdropping on a spontaneous conversation between two intimate friends, Shawn spent a year creating the script, using tapes of his and Gregory's actual conversations as raw material.
