My Dinner with Andre
(1981)
Stars: Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler
Director: Louis Malle
Writer: Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn
Language: English
Studio: Criterion Collection
Duration: 110
Rated: Unrated
DVD Release: June 2009
In Louis Malle’s captivating and philosophical My Dinner with André, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director André Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also wrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with André remains a unique work in cinema history.
Andre Gregory | Andre Gregory |
Wallace Shawn | Wally Shawn |
Jean Lenauer | Waiter |
Roy Butler | Bartender |
Jeri Sopanen | Cinematographer |
Suzanne Baron | Editor |
Allen Shawn | Composer |
David Mitchell | Production Designer |
Stephen McCabe | Art Director |
Jeff Ullman | Custome Designer |
Genre: Comedy
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 1.0
IMDb: 0082783