My Dinner with Andre
- slow-burn
- inventive
- twisty
- signature
- intimate
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
Our read · My Dinner with Andre (1981) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of My Dinner with Andre
What watching it is actually like.
“You crave one hypnotic restaurant conversation about how to actually live.”
Skip it tonight — Ninety minutes of two men talking with no plot sounds like torture tonight.
The reading.
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