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My Dinner with André
My Dinner with André
8.6
/10
5,136 Ratings

MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ

Directed by Louis Malle
United States, 1981
Drama, Biography, Comedy

Synopsis

Actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between.

Synopsis

Actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between.

Our take

Has there ever been a movie as meticulously staged yet delightfully free-flowing as this two-character drama from director Louis Malle? A witty, charming meditation on life as an artist, My Dinner with André is an enduring classic to which you’ll find yourself returning time and again.