This documentary won two prizes at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, including the audience award for documentary feature. Considering last year, Sundance had some of my favorite documentaries of 2025 in The Perfect Neighbor, Deaf President Now, and Come See Me In The Good Light, I would say the bar has been raised. I think the reason we’re seeing this a bit later is to try and give it some space from the Oscar nominated Come See Me in The Good Light, as the two have some striking similarities.

Andre is an interesting man, an advertising executive who certainly thinks outside the box. The film certainly is up front. this is a film about a man’s terminal cancer diagnosis, and what makes Andre different, is his unique approach to the impending doom. But we learn Andre is basically always an eclectic individual, and his family seems to acknowledge that he never takes the road traveled, or even the one less traveled, but rather seems to reinvent the concept of a road.

From his youth where he grew up, eventually meeting and marrying his future wife, the whole thing started as assistance to keep her in the country, though romance still found a way. Andre and his wife competed on the Newlywed Game as a way to prove themselves as a couple for review purposes in their meeting to prove they are a legitimate couple. This lark led to an actual marriage, and a family. Now, in the middle of his life, he finds himself facing impending doom. What makes this film unique and inspirational is the idea that Andre never does things obviously, or conventionally, and that lack of predictability bleeds into his fight against his diagnosis.

So, it is quite a bit like Come See Me In The Good Light, as two individuals startlingly unique in their own ways, are facing life changing news, and tackling it their ways. Both films are terrific, and in spite of their nature, they are life affirming works, as we often see people living life to the absolute fullest when faced with the prospect of diminishing tomorrows.

Andre may be an idiot, but the film has far more emotional intelligence than you may expect.

Fresh: 9.1/10