The whole film is about an actor and screenwriter discussing various life topics with a director at the dinner table, which is very speculative. There are two men in the film, "I" and Andre. One is ambitious, and the other is content with the status quo. During a dinner, the two talked about their respective views and confusions on life, life, and the world. Speaking of it, these two people are infinitely ordinary, not only unremarkable in appearance, but even you will forget them when you turn around... In 1957, Louis Malle, who was only 25 years old, directed "Elevator to the Gallows" and became famous. The film deliberately broke the narrative habits of traditional French films, and learned from the stylized narrative of Hollywood noir films in the 1940s and 1950s, laying the foundation for his personal style, and was even hailed as a pioneer of the New Wave. This film, My Dinner with Andre, was made by the director after he moved to the United States. It is based on the spiritual communication between two intellectuals in a restaurant, but adopts a narrative method that combines feature films with documentaries, and is full of exploratory spirit and experimental colors (Xu Jinglei's later "Dreams Illuminate Reality" was obviously borrowed from this film). The version that Criterion will release not only restores the images, but also includes newly recorded interviews with the two protagonists (Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory), and the related TV program "My Dinner with Louis" produced by the BBC.