André Ricciardi is a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him. When he learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity.
A lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur, André has never done anything the conventional way, and confronting mortality proves no different: he picks up a camera, cracks a joke, and begins to ask the biggest questions of his life with disarming candor. André’s inner world—his stories, fears, philosophies, and absurdist imagination—is brought to life through fantastical stop-motion animation woven into intimate vérité footage, as he playfully processes both joy and dread.
Irreverent and defiantly heartfelt, André Is an Idiot is wildly life-affirming, a glimpse into the strange clarity that arrives when one’s time suddenly becomes finite, and a profound portrait of a man determined to face death as openly and ridiculously as he has lived.