The Doc Club: "Andre Is an Idiot"

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ABOUT THE FILM:

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Winner of the Sundance Protected content Award: US Documentary

95% – Rotten Tomatoes

“A riotously funny, painfully honest film about facing death” – Leslie Felperin, The Guardian

The unexpected, irreverent, and defiantly heartfelt André is an Idiot, a wildly life-affirming film about death and the strange clarity that arrives when time suddenly becomes finite. When André Ricciardi, a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him, learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity. A lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur, André has never done anything the conventional way, and confronting mortality proves no different: he picks up a camera, cracks a joke, and begins to ask the biggest questions of his life with disarming candor.

In a deeply collaborative partnership with director Tony Benna, the way André processes both joy and dread, transforms the film into a playful yet profound portrait of a man determined to face death as openly and ridiculously as he has lived.