2018 Directed by Sacha Gervasi
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Ross Katz Steven Zaillian Sacha Gervasi Peter Dinklage Richard Middleton Garrett Basch Jessica de Rothschild David Ginsberg
My Dinner with Herve, Моята вечеря с Ерве, Má večeře s Hervém, Mein Dinner mit Hervé, Mi cena con Hervé, Ma rencontre avec Hervé, ארוחת ערב עם הרווה, Hervé vacsorára, My Dinner with Hervé, ჩემი სადილი ერვესთან, 마이 디너 위드 허브, Moja kolacja z Hervé, Meu Jantar com Hervé, Cina mea cu Hervé, Мой ужин с Эрве, Hervé ile Akşam Yemeği, 我与赫夫共进晚餐
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While I've known about Hervé for a long time and have even seen him in James Bond during my marathon of the franchise, I must confess that, aside from his appearances in that film and "Fantasy Island," I was completely unaware of his life and death until very recently. With that in mind, I thought this film did a fantastic job of educating me about it.
The film even does an excellent job of establishing the interviewer who is used as an excuse to get to know our protagonist, which is unusual for this sort of film where this character frequently feels like an impediment. Much of this is due to Dornan's performance, which continues to demonstrate that everything awful…
Dinklage and Dornan are solid but the whole thing feels like a live action Wikipedia presentation, if that makes sense.
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”The plane! The plane!”
A beautifully constructed tale of morality and unbearable inextinguishable fire that burns deep and dark within the souls of broken men and their irresistible urge in the oxymoronic dedication in narcissistic destruction and peace in self-immolation.
Why hate yourself when you can hate me?
-Hervé Villechaize
A bit of a passion project for Sacha Gervasi and Peter Dinklage who have been working on this project for years. I was a little thrown off by Dinklage doing Hervé's voice, but if he didn't imitate his accent I would have been thrown off by him not doing it. I soon got used to it though and ended up thinking Dinklage did a fantastic job in the role. My only other experience with Jamie Dornan was seeing him in Fifty Shades of Grey so by comparison he deserves a fucking Oscar Nomination for his performance here. But seriously he is great.
The biopic does a great job of highlighting…
Fictional London based Irish journalist Danny Tate (Jamie Dornan) is sent on an assignment to LA to interview Gore Vidal but also must do an interest piece on a faded actor, the diminutive Herve Villechaize (Peter Dinklage).
As the night plays out Villechaize and his excessive antics become the real story as he recites the tale of his rather tragi-comedic life and career.
Based on the real-life memories of writer/director Sasha Gervasi - who did actually hang out with Villechaize for a brief period shortly before his suicide in 1993 - it's a solid if unspectacular bio-pic from Netflix that features a committed performance from Dinklage in the lead role.
Dornan also produces a passionate turn as recovering alcoholic Tate…
The unbelievable story of journalist Sasha Gervasi's assignment to do a piece on Hervé Villechaize. Hervé was best known for Nick Nack in James Bond's The Man With the Golden Gun, and Tattoo on Fantasy Island. Going in without knowing the story was a real treat. Gervasi himself wrote and directed, with Jamie Dornan playing him so wonderfully. Peter Dinklage can't go without a mention, he made this movie, wow! He's so incredibly talented I'm absolutely enamored every time he completely embodies a character.
What the hell was that ending man. If you are gonna bittersweet symphony us at least use the original!
I don't think I've seen Dinklage have so much fun in a role since his eight season stint as Tyrion Lannister. He's at his best when playing a larger than life character with his special brand of charisma.
Jamie Dornan was pretty decent himself, demonstrating some real emotions in this one.
The real Hervé Villechaize led quite a life. But because of his size, he was a man that was all the more determined to be popular; to make it big.
Would he have been the same determined man with similar aspirations if he was a regular sized guy? Would he have traded his fame and fortune to be a regular sized average Joe?
In a lot of instances, the…
I remember hearing stories about Herve being a wild man way before the internet and also remember the sad news of his suicide in the early 90s at age 50. Sacha Gervasi again makes a poignant film about the people he met during his younger years. First with the heavy metal band Anvil back in 2008 and now with one of the most famous little people on earth, Hervé Villacheize. Tattoo from Fantasy Island. They met in the early 90s and it's based on their time together. At first it was a little messy watching his painful childhood, his rise to fame and his sad downfall. Starts to gain more power towards the middle and I was very moved by the end. Thanks to a fantastic performance by Peter Dinklage and good supporting acting by Jamie Dorman. Also that song Bittersweet Symphony never gets old goddammit!
I wanted to like this HBO biopic of dwarf actor Hervé Villechaize way, way more than I actually did, and in fact I bet the same could be said of the people who actually created it, that they all sincerely wanted to make a great film about this surprisingly fascinating man, but just didn't have the real-life material to do it. That's because, as interesting as the interesting bits of Villechaize's life were -- born in Nazi France, the youngest painter ever to be exhibited at the Museum of Paris, before chucking it all for a life as an unconventional actor in the "New Hollywood" of the countercultural era -- it's still only enough to fill a half-hour episode of…
I’m not going to do this film justice, but I want to recommend it. I was so grateful to see something that had a point and some humanity. It was much better than the last three theatrically-released films I saw. If you have HBO, give it a little time and see it.
