MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981)
Directed by Louis Malle
110 minutes
In English, no subtitles
Its actually hard to really compare this film with any other in cinema history.
Imagine a film that only consists of two people talking for a couple of hours in a restaurant. Insane! But somehow director Louis Malle pulls this miracle off thanks to an excellent, engaging script and his incredibly subtle direction. The whole film doesn\'t feel theatre-like at all, but natural and flowing as the ideas spin off, one after the other, and your mind races to catch up with them. Andy Warhol said that cinema should be about interesting people and that\'s exactly what makes My Dinner with Andre work in the end. And since the basis of the film is the true story of Andre Gregory, this film is brilliantly relevant to the issues at the Rietveld concerning art and how to enter the world outside the academy.
One of the things that is great about this film is that it shows that you don\'t need spectacles like big car chases or people jumping off bridges or exotic locations to make absolutely riveting cinema. All you need to make a brilliant film is two people and a movie camera.
An unmissable cult film for anyone interested in thinking about art, experimental theatre or life in general. Once again, this is a film which is never screened in cinemas any longer for years now- so maybe its now or never!
Here is what one reviewer wrote about it:
\"The sheer audacity of My Dinner with Andre drew throngs of curious filmgoers who made the film the most talked-about art-house hit of 1981. After all, who\'d ever heard of a movie consisting of nearly two hours of nonstop dinner conversation? Ah... but this isn\'t just any conversation--it\'s the kind of mesmerizing, soul-searching, life-affirming exploration that we feel privileged to listen to, and with unobtrusive style, director Louis Malle invites us to eavesdrop to our hearts\' and minds\' content. The film was written by the two New Yorkers at the dinner table, noted playwright-actor Wallace Shawn and well-known stage director Andre Gregory, who essentially play themselves. The talk flows and flows until you\'re captivated by Gregory\'s stories of world travel and spiritual quests in Poland, India, Tibet, the Sahara desert... the tales of a soul-searcher who\'d dropped out of the theater world to rediscover his zest for living. Both primal and sophisticated, witty and profound, My Dinner with Andre is a film that can be savored over time, offering new revelations with each viewing as the listener-viewer develops his or her own appreciation of life\'s great mysteries.\"
+ 2 short films by Stan Brakhage: WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959) and MOTHLIGHT (1963)
THE BEAMCLUB
THE RIETVELD ART ACADEMY
18:00 - In the Basement/ Gym Hall
Gerrit Rietveld Academie- Fred Roeskestraat 96
Admission: 1 Euro donation
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Fred Roeskestraat 96 - Amsterdam
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