Tuesday, January 24, 2012

My Dinner with Andre

Legendary French director Louis Malle delivered a sublime film with this intellectual masterpiece. A struggling writer reluctantly meets an old friend for dinner where they have an intellectual conversation about life and death amongst others. Malle who consistently pushed himself as a director pushed himself to deliver stunning film in an already illustrious career. Brilliantly written and performed by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory who appear as themselves as converse about a wide ranging issues and topics that's spellbinding and fascinating. Never has been cinema so captivating as watching two guys talking that's worth listening. 1001 Films' coverage of films on DVD.

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