My Dinner with Andre

My Dinner with Andre 7.8
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Premiere: 1981
  • Running time: 1h 50m
  • Country: USA

The whole film is about an actor and screenwriter discussing various life topics with a director at the dinner table. The two men in the film, "me" and Andre. One is that the heart is higher than the sky, and the other is content with the status quo. Over dinner, they talked about their respective views and bewilderment of life, life and the world. Speaking of, these two people are infinitely ordinary, not only are they not amazing, but you will even forget when you look back. In 1957, Louis Mahler, who was only 25 years old, shot to fame by directing "the Elevator to the Gallows". The film deliberately broke the narrative habits of traditional French films and stole the stylized narrative of Hollywood black films in the 1940s and 1950s, which laid the foundation of personal style. It is even praised as the forerunner of the new wave. The Dinner with Andre is a film made after the director moved to the United States. it focuses on the spiritual communication between the two intellectuals in a restaurant, but adopts the narrative way of combining the plot film with the documentary. and full of exploratory spirit and experimental color (later Xu Jinglei's Dream illuminates reality is an obvious reference from this film). The upcoming version of Standard Company not only restores the picture, but also includes.

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