A film by Louis Malle, 1981, 110 minutes
By Maria Bazhlekova
“All I thought about was art and music, now all I think about is money,” says Wallace Shawn in his narration at the start of Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre. Wallace Shawn is a clear-eyed, pragmatic New Yorker who has been roped into having dinner with an old friend named Andre Gregory. Gregory is an uninhibited, idealistic, experimental theater director. The conflict of the film, which almost entirely takes place during a dinner conversation between these men, arises from the differences in these men’s personalities. Andre Gregory is the last individual on the planet who would ever say that all he thinks about nowadays is money.
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