Peter Dinklage is great in My Dinner With Hervé, but Hervé Villechaize isn't the focus of his HBO movie

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"My Dinner With Hervé isn’t a completely fantastic film, but that’s absolutely no fault of Dinklage’s," says Amy Glynn. "He’s marvelous. It’s just that the film suffers from the same thing that seems to have plagued Villechaize’s life: being somehow incidental to his own story." As the title suggests, the film is the story of the director who met with the Fantasy Island star. "And I guess that’s fine," says Glynn, "but it leaves Dinklage’s sensitive, intriguing, wounded, dissipated and self-sabotaging portrayal of Villechaize as object, not subject."

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