My Dinner With Andre - Review by Thomas Rosie

Overview

My Dinner with Andre, is a 1981 film about two men, who work in theatre, having dinner together and discussing their life's works and achievements, the entire film is set in the restaurant, at their table, as their 3 course meal is brought out to them as they both talk the night away, well at least Andre does...

Favourite Scene

Can't really say, as the entire thing is set in one place, so rather than favourite scene, let's have a few favourite moments, brace yourselves, there is a lot...

Well last week we saw an incompetent judge in Cry Baby, this week we have an incompetent Waiter, when Andre enquires about a dish on the menu, his response was to just list a couple of random ingredients and overall verdict was "it's very good I think", then Wallace also enquires about one of the dishes and gets "It's potato soup, very delicious", to me it sounds like something you'd get given in prison, this meal has not been sold to me at all. Turns out, Andre is a massive racist "The Poles love to dance", i know plenty of Polish people who can't dance or in no way enjoy it, so to make this presumption is damn well outrageous, can tell it was made in 1981!

Favourite Quote

"Have you ever seen a show called The Violets Are Blue? It's about people being strangled on a submarine" - Wallace asks Andre this, and i'm guessing he'd not seen it but it's one of the few times you see him lost for words, maybe Wallace asked him on purpose for a few seconds peace? I'm not sure.

"The only thing disappointing about cold coffee, is if you find there's a dead cockroach in it" Well how can i disagree with this observation from Wallace, this one sentence has made more sense than what Andre has said over the entire night.

Final Words

It was very difficult to keep up with what the hell Andre was talking about, one minute he was eating sand, the next minute he's kidnapped a Japanese Monk named Kozan, and forced him to work as an au pair for him and clean his house. I blinked again for a second, he was then revealing he was being buried alive after talking to insects that live on large cauliflowers. Electric blankets infuriate him, and also believes you can starve to death by eating nothing but chicken. This entire film is like conversations i've had in people's kitchens at 4am when completely off my face. This film was one big acid trip, without the acid.

I give My Dinner With Andre - 4 out of 5 stars. It lost the 5th star because i couldn't hear what Andre was saying for the first 10 minutes because Wallace's thoughts in his head were too loud. And i believe i'd missed a key part where all this would have made sense.