"It's like a mad tea party or a mad, modern Platonic dialogue about the meaning of life. Self-effacingly directed by Louis Malle, it flows smoothly, creating the illusion that we are simply listening in on the dinnertime conversation of the playwright Wallace Shawn and the former avant-garde theater director André Gregory. The premise of the movie is that they haven't seen each other since 1975, when André dropped out-took off on a spiritual quest for 'reality' which led him around the world?.Wally persuades André to tell him what he has been up to, and the suave, hawklike André, who's like the sum of all the crackpot glittery-eyed charmers in the world, pours out the record of his transcendental experiences?wave after impassioned wave. (Wally) plays warthog to André's soaring flights of mysticism?.This is a bizarre and surprisingly entertaining satirical comedy-the story of the search beyond theater turned into theater, or, at least, into a movie."-Pauline ael, 5001 Nights at the Movies