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My Dinner with Andre

(1981)

Golly, here's an end credit I didn't expect to see: Additional Production Services by Troma, Inc.

Otherwise, this was pretty much what I expected, for better (mostly) and worse: two white New York liberal artsers talking for 110 minutes: philosophizing, quasi-philosophizing, pseudophilosophizing, and (at best) telling marvelous stories of the shaggiest imaginable dogs. Andre Gregory, whose #2 highlight of his film career is probably as John the Baptist in The Last Temptation of Christ, has the perfect face and delivery to convey what may be absolute sincerity or absolute full-of-shitness, and Wallace Shawn is, well, Wallace Shawn. They wrote the film together, and Louis Malle directed.