My Dinner with Andre
- Wallace Shawn: Wally
- Andre Gregory: André
- Jean Lenauer: waiter
- Roy Butler: Bartender
My Dinner with Andre is an American feature film from the year 1981.
Action
The actor and playwright Wally meets for a dinner with his friend André at a French restaurant in New York. The two have not seen each other for several years. Wally finds it difficult to read the French menu, but his friend can help him with the translations. André told his colleagues what happened in his life in recent years, while Wally listening especially. He tells of his experiences with the theater experiments by Polish director Jerzy Grotowski. Other topics discussed are Andrés Travel: with Tibetan monks in the Sahara, in the barren landscape of northern Scotland and his stay with Richard Avedon in Montauk, where he had attended a rebirth ritual. The conversation of the two ends with a burst Wally, who believes that his friend has wasted the last years of his life. He shares with his friend that his belief in magic is not only dangerous for the boyfriend, but also for others. In his argument, however, Wally recognizes that his pragmatic and realistic view is not the only right to life. Wally is confused and runs after eating a taxi through New York. On the way he thinks back to his childhood in New York and begins to see things of life in a slightly different way.
Background
Although the film is set in New York, the film was shot in the restaurant of the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.
The film was the subject of an episode of " Community ".
The film is in a sequence in "The Simpsons" parodied. As a result, to white water rafting Martin Prince plays an arcade conversion of the film on a slot machine.
Reviews
"A dialogue movie trying a complex and demanding literary meditation on existential, political and artistic issues in conscious restriction of expression. A work that requires attention and patience, but also mental stimulation mediated. "
Awards
The film was awarded in 1982 by the Boston Society of Film Critics with the price of the best American film and the award for best screenplay.