Arena (1975)

My Dinner with Louis (1984x15)

Air date: May 06, 1984

Tonight Arena profiles the French film director Louis Malle. Malle is a director who has never let himself be tied down to one style of film making. 'The Lovers', with Jeanne Moreau, shocked the conservative public in 1958, and his Indian documentaries were candid enough to concern the Indian government. Even in the permissive 70s, Malle found ways to provoke, depicting child prostitution in 'Pretty Baby' with Brooke Shields, and corruption in 'Lacombe Lucien', about a collaborator in wartime France. Wallace Shawn, the American playwright and actor, first worked with Louis Malle in Atlantic City, USA. They became friends, and Malle directed a film that Shawn had written called 'My Dinner with Andre'. Arena took Louis Malle and Wallace Shawn back to Atlantic City.