8/10
My Dinner with André starts off very uneventful. It's just two dudes talking about what they've been doing since they've last seen each other, well it's mostly Wallace Shawn listening to André Gregory talking about his theater stories. Nothing enticing. Then they start talking about society, the future, the meaning of their lives, etc. and it becomes one of the most enthralling films about a conversation that I've ever seen. I've seen many films like this where it's either two people talking or in Secret Honor's case 1 but My Dinner with André might be the most important out of them all. Truly one of the most important films of all time and one that should be experienced than explained.

Originally seen at The Prytania Theater in Uptown New Orleans in very early 1982 at age 13. Needless to say, it blew my adolescent mind.

I really enjoyed the last half. If you want to make a movie about a conversation, or that actually is a conversation, well, this is it.

"What does that mean?
A wife. A husband. A son.
A baby holds your hands...
...and then suddenly there's this huge man
lifting you off the ground...
...and then he's gone.
Where's that son?"

This movie is bigger than Lawrence of Arabia without even leaving the restaurant.

Okay so lately I have been rewatching Community and today I feel on an episode that was about My Dinner With Andre and because it has been on my mind for quite some time I decided to finally watch it and it was fine. If you told me the idea it seems as a movie I would love and there were parts of the dialogue that I really liked, it just is that most of times I was kinda bored and not that invested. i really loved the last 5 minutes, but there were many points that I wasn't very interested.

B-

Παρόλο που είναι ταινία ραμμένη για εμένα, δεν τρελάθηκα. Ήταν ωραία και ενδιαφέρουσα σε σημεία, αλλά δεν μου κράτησε το ενδιαφέρον.

Два неудачника 2 часа бессвязно пиздят за жизнь. Крайне сомнительное и утомительное зрелище. Тем лживее выглядят юные кеноманы, которые с умным видом шведили классику в Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

I bet this movie couldn’t get an audience if it were released today. I think maybe they got by a little on a novel idea that works once. Still, it’s impressive that this movie that has almost zero action direction is able to keep interesting purely on the efforts of the two men on screen. There’s a lot to dissect and make fun of, but I think that’s easy as an audience that is essentially eavesdropping on a conversation. I’m guessing 90 minutes of footage from any dinner with me and one of my friends would be equally insufferable for an outsider.

Here is a story about two men. One of them is much smarter than he thinks he is. The other one is much less smart then he thinks he is. I think anyone who reads me can probably guess that of the two characters Wally is far more interesting then Andre, who Gregory portrays as the ultimate result of having too much time and money to pursue your passions at the expense of anyone else, but what makes this film really sparkle is that not only does it trust us to figure this out, it's that a lot of Andre's adventures really ARE interesting, and I enjoy hearing about them. A film designed to be revisited. It's gonna be fascinating watching Linklater films after this.

“I could always live in my art, but never in my life” has never applied so much: conversations from intelligent, curious minds altered by life. Every time I even hear the name “Andre” it is like music to my ears, and it conjures all my own musings on my own art and love and life and food. This is existentialism at its absolute finest. We’ve all had our own mini dinner’s with our own Andre’s, and this manages to feel so real yet so apt for cinema while still so exaggerated, probably due to the genius ways it condenses time. A whole adventure in this one room. It’s a fucking masterpiece, no doubt. 
New York, New York, what a wonderful world.

Richard Linklater lite