My dinner with Andre

So I finally watched the cult classic "My dinner with Andre" directed by the legendary Louis Malle. So was it good, no it was excellent. This film was written by two friends who come from wealth, intellect, and a prestigious education that includes Harvard and Oxford. This film was written by two friends, who had worked often together one a playwright and the other a theater director. The playwright is the popular but somewhat unknown Wallace Shawn (the princess bride (he even says inconceivable in this film)), and he plays a playwright named Wallace Shawn who grew up in New York and is dating a woman named Debbie which is his reality. The theater director who co-wrote and co-starred in this film is Andre Gregory, who plays theater director Andre Gregory. So basically this somewhat improvised film which, has the feel of a play, is an actual conversation these dear friends had one evening over dinner. The stories they tell throughout the film are all real life experiences, their character names are their real names and their professions are their real life professions. Basically this could have been a documentary featuring these two men talking, but the shell and the structure was written before hand. The movie is simple, we enjoy dinner with these two men as if we are there with them enjoying their witty deep discussion. This movie reminded me a lot of another great film that is simply one long conversation called "mindwalk." I think this movie was brilliant, and I look forward to watching it again someday with others, so that maybe the film can be the spark that ignites such a profound discussion that me and my friends or girlfriend can engage in ourselves. I don't think this film is for everyone, it is after all a conversation between two very erudite artists. However, I believe it is a must see for the intellectuals of this world. Oh and one other thing, I usually hate movies based on plays, they read and are often shot like we are an audience watching a play. This film is a film, it is intimate and simple but feels natural and we are allowed as I said to be at the table with these men and not in the audience watching them.