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From: parker@psuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: My Dinner with Andre
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Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 10:45:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 10:45:10 1983
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All this brouhaha over "My Dinner with Andre" is getting to be a bit much.
It is not a great movie, merely a good one.  Its idea is novel (no sex,
no violence, no special effects, in fact, no plot).

"My Dinner with Andre" is anything but a pretentious movie.  I liked it
as much as 1981's Renoir movie "Mon Oncle d'Amerique."  Intelligent,
with a pleasant cynicism, it is a two-hour dinner chat between two different
fellows.  Both are stereotypes, one of apathetic Middle America and the other
of the est-"mellow"-"discover myself in California" genre.

Curiously it is simultaneously self-mocking and serious.  I loved it,
but others are sure to find it tedious:  Nothing happens.  No blood is spilled.
No one gets laid.  Only relevant ideas are discussed, things that point
to the heart of our existence.

Bruce Parker
Penn State