Facing death, the self-described “idiot” decides to make a documentary about his own idiocy, told with the irreverence and distracted obsessions that mark his general worldview. He doesn’t ...

The title may be his own characteristically irreverent admission of error, though “André is an Idiot” is not a film of regrets or recriminations: If he’s going to die, he reckons ...

This year, one of the breakout entries is André is an Idiot ... (Also read: Khartoum review: Hybrid, self-reflexive doc captures the power of alliance) Tonny Benna's film revolves around André ...

is a film called Andre is an Idiot. One wouldn’t expect a documentary about a man suffering from colon cancer to be the funniest film of the 150+ films showing at Sundance, but it is.

Thanks to Tony Benna’s new documentary, André Is an Idiot, there’s now a viable third possibility. Funny, sad and uncomfortable in shifting proportions, the film is at once an urgent public ...