Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions the value of Gregory's seeming abando... (Full plot summary below)
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Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions the value of Gregory's seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects of life.
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| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelTheir talk feels as unforced as it is intense, but even that’s an illusion piled on top of an illusion. The film keeps returning to questions about the nature of reality and the function of performance, whether in theater or in everyday life. |
| Turner Classic Movies OnlineSean Axmaker... an intellectual bull session as cinematic performance piece... |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLike the listeners at the feet of a master storyteller, we find ourselves visualizing what Gregory describes, until this film is as filled with visual images as a radio play—more filled, perhaps, than a conventional feature film. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseThis scripted literal "conversation piece"...was also acutely self-aware and just as much thought-provoking, offering a progressive cinematic paradigm... [Blu-ray] |
| The GuardianPhilip FrenchIt's a riveting, provocative film that rewards several viewings. |
| NewsweekJack KrollThe fact that people don’t talk like this in real life isn’t a flaw in the film: It’s a tragic social deficiency. |
| WBAI RadioPrairie MillerThe dining duo struggle with words between bites, groping for a recipe summoning the meaning of life. And in a movie that redefined as a surprising and inventive enduring classic, both leading man requisites and filmmaking conventions. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA couple of New York intellectuals get together for dinner and have a confessional chat about their life. Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory play themselves. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA completely merited cult favourite of the avant-garde genre. This is surprisingly compelling in places. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanLouis Malle's film was unique and exceptional in 1981, and it's still fairly unusual. It's a lesson in the value of listening and squeezing riches about humanity out of the swag of talk |
