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MARRIED. Andre Previn, 52, composer and music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony; and British Glass Engraver Heather Hales, 33; he for the fourth time (Actress Mia Farrow was his third wife), she for the second; in Pittsburgh.
Andre, of course, finds his friend's reaction enchanting. Goading him on--"You have to clear the noise out of the world"--he reaffirms his belief in a higher level of existence.
A car honks its horn at that moment, and as Malle contrives it, it resounds within the restaurant, as if to resolve the evening's dilemma. Wally and Andre cast their parting shots amicably, and with music from the piano, the spell is ended.
THE FILM'S BRIEF EXCURSIONS outside that restaurant show Wally on his way to dinner, and on his way home. In these two scenes, Malle sets My Dinner With Andre against a worldly canvas of commercialism and decay. His opening shot frames a refuse bin piled over with garbage, before...
My Dinner With Andre might be interpreted as a grand allegory, a dialogue between the self of day to day life and the soul of wistful fantasy. Perhaps it ends too easily, bringing us back to the light and sounds of the real world. The screenplay--serious, reflective, humorous and...