My Dinner with Andre
1981 · 110 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 27,866 VOTES · DIR. Louis Malle
Overview
Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,548 lines
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00:00:07 MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
00:06:23 the character played by Ingrid Bergman had said, "I could always live in my art, but never in my life."
00:10:54 or young women who love the theater but have never seen a theater that they could love, and if
00:15:10 Well, I was terrified, Wally. I mean, in a way I felt on stage. I did it anyway.
00:19:31 So Grotowski said: "If it burns, try to change some little thing in yourself."
00:24:16 Now that's very frightening, because with that comes an immediate awareness of death.
00:29:48 and there were palm trees moving in the wind;
00:34:29 I could not make that creature go away.
00:39:23 and I heard about this community, in Scotland, called Findhorn
00:44:06 and there were all these naked bodies huddling together for warmth against the cold.
00:48:59 It was just as if he had died in my living room
00:53:21 I don't think we're even aware of ourselves or our own reaction to things
00:57:56 Or people will be talking about some horrible thing like
01:02:28 And one day, when he was in his mid-fifties
01:06:56 It's a difficult environment! I mean, our lives are tough enough as it is
01:11:18 that I'm sort of sharing this stage with this starving person in Africa somewhere
01:15:54 well, there was an example of something that had all the elements of theater:
01:20:13 'cause he never knows where he's gonna be tomorrow!
01:25:17 was how to have a roof that would stay on the building
01:30:29 You found the hand print in the book, and there were three Andrés
01:35:12 were probably a reaction against a certain oppressive kind of knowledge
01:39:31 Is your marriage still a marriage? Is the sacramental element there?
01:44:35 I mean, if you felt like walking out on the person you live with, you'd walk out.
01:49:58 Subtitle operator: LUCI DINCÃ
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,548
Dialogue density14.1 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line01:49:58
Production Record
DirectorLouis Malle
LanguageEnglish
Budget$475,000
Revenue$5,250,000
IMDb votes27,866