CiNEMERCATOR - Louis Malle My dinner with André 1981
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4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming one special film per month.
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Louis Malle My dinner with André 1981
Not for everyone, but for those who need it: essential.
In a dimly lit restaurant in Manhattan, two old friends- Wallace and André- meet for dinner and talk. That’s it. No flashbacks, no dramatic revelations, no cutaways. Just two men, a meal, and a conversation that quietly unfolds into one of the most radical films of the 20th century.
My Dinner with Andre dares to ask if a movie can simply be a dialogue- and then answers, resoundingly, that it can be everything. What begins as casual catching up spirals into a philosophical duel: André, the mystic and seeker, recounts a life of strange and spiritual experiments; Wally, the skeptic and playwright, grounds the conversation in the comforts of routine, love, and the material world. Their differences are not staged as conflict but as tension—alive, unresolved, human.
More than forty years later, My Dinner with Andre feels prescient. In an era of short attention spans and mediated realities, it reminds us of the strange miracle of unfiltered conversation. It is a film about being alive- and noticing it.
This film is chosen by Maaike
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