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
00:06:14 the Ingmar Bergman movie Autumn Sonata about twenty-five blocks away
00:10:36 So he said: "Why don't you tell me anything you'd like to have, if you did
00:14:50 He said: "Well, a beehive is at 8:00 a hundred strangers come into a room."
00:18:57 It was like a magnificent cobweb.
00:23:31 That's what I felt like.
00:28:45 with two actors and this Japanese monk! - You did?
00:33:25 so really we hadn't been working very much. Anyway.
00:38:08 Chiquita goes absolutely white and runs out of the room and vomits!
00:42:42 And they took us into the basement of this house that had burned down on the property
00:47:41 and I'm just very dubious about the kind of person
00:51:41 except the few little things that they wanted to see.
00:56:11 and I started screeching about how he had just been found in the Bronx River
01:00:20 On the contrary, this incredible emphasis that we all place now on our so-called "careers"
01:04:48 that affect us in ways that somehow we're just not aware of?
01:09:06 the human being before he was extinguished.
01:13:19 I wanted Agawe to bring on a real head, and that this head should be passed around the audience
01:17:45 I mean: is Mount Everest more "real" than New York? I mean, isn't New York "real"?
01:22:06 Now, of course, Björnstrand feels that there's really almost no hope.
01:27:21 And I mean, I have a list of errands and responsibilities that I keep in a notebook;
01:31:54 And if I were to go on a trip, on an airplane, and I got a fortune cookie that said "Don't go,"
01:36:38 is like saying that a tree ought to be able to live without branches or roots
01:40:48 And then last year in Israel, I looked at the picture?
01:45:34 Well, that really is something to strive for, I think; I really do.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,548
Dialogue density14.1 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line01:45:34
Production Record
DirectorLouis Malle
LanguageEnglish
Budget$475,000
Revenue$5,250,000
IMDb votes27,866