Sunday, June 10, 2012

My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Odd, and rather famous art film starting actor/writer/director Andre Gregory and actor/writer/comedian Wallace Shawn as fictional versions of them selves having dinner. That's it, they have dinner, and a long conversation, consisting largely of extended monologues by Andre concerning experimental theater and life altering spiritual experiences. The conversation was not on the surface as interesting as I'd both expected and wanted it to be, it did however become kind of hypnotic, owing largely to Andre's delivery. The dichotomy in the film appears to be Gregory's high fluting, fanciful, existentialism as contrasted with Shaw's practical humanism. Anyway your not going to understand it but if your into film literacy you should probably see it it just to see it, you'll get to sound more film snobbish if you do.

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