Conversation(s) With Other Women
by Hans Canosa
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Actor: Aaron Eckhart, Brian Geraghty, Brianna Brown, Helena Bonham Carter, Yury TsykunDirector: Hans Canosa
Brand: Hart Sharp Video
Producer: Bill McCutchen
Producer: Glen Reynolds
Producer: Kerry Barden
Producer: Kjehl Rasmussen
Producer: Kwesi Collisson
Producer: Mark G. Mathis
Writer: Gabrielle Zevin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 2956703962
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
Product features:
- There Are Two Sides To Every Love Story At a New York City wedding reception, two guests (Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart), seemingly strangers, become entangled in a sexually-charged battle of wits. As the night carries on, the nameless couple's repartee deepens to reveal the passion of their past love affair. Unfolding entirely in split-screen, director Hans Canosa's feature de
Movie Reviews of Conversation(s) With Other Women
Movie Review: Very Well Done
Summary: 5 Stars
Warning...spoilers
This is an intriguing movie. I normally don't like films that are all dialogue, but "Conversations with Other Women" hooked me pretty quickly. I think it's all down to the fact that Helena Bonham-Carter and Aaron Eckhart having a great deal of charisma and chemistry together and the fact that the dialogue rings true and sparkles.
As for the split screen depiction, initially I found myself hoping it would go away, but once I settled into the movie, I didn't mind it and thought it sometimes added to the story (but it would be interesting to see a version where most everything was done on one screen).
Turning to the story, it's pretty simple. Bonham-Carter and Eckhart meet at a wedding. At first, they way they talk, you would think they don't know each other. But then you start to realize and the film reveals that they were once married and that marriage ended with Bonham-Carter's character packing up and moving to London and marrying an older man. Eventually, the two (ex)lovers retire to her hotel room and have sex and talk about the past and the future.
I think it's a testimony to the chemistry that the two stars have and the dialogue of the film that I did not find their actions sleazy or reprehensible (Bonham-Carter's character cheating on her husband and Eckhart cheating on his much younger girlfriend). Through their conversations and the flashbacks shown on the split screen, we see just how much love and passion once existed between them. I'm left with the opinion that their divorce happened so quickly and they were cut off from each other so rapidly, their love didn't die but just went on hiatus...only to come back at full burn when they met again at the wedding.
I'm left wondering what would happen after the story ended. Frankly, it's hard to see how either of them could have just gone back to where they were before (for example, Bonham-Carter's character's protestations that she's happy in her life in London ring false...and Eckhart makes it very clear that he never got over her). I'd like to think that in the fictional world where these two lovers exist, Bonham-Carter's character did return to London and wound up her marriage there before coming back to Eckhart's character in New York. I couldn't help but notice that the split screen finally united at the very end of the movie and perhaps that symbolizes a hopeful future.
The movie isn't perfect. I thought that a bit of the sex scene in the hotel was rather graphic (not for me, but older and more conservative people would probably be put off by it). Also, the idea that the two characters would have identical cell phones that would allow Bonham-Carter's character to answer a call from Eckhart's girlfriend seemed a bit improbable (as did the idea that the girlfriend would not have instantly realized why this had happened). But those aren't significant enough flaws to take away from the rewarding experience that watching the film was for me (and I bought a copy from amazon.com right before posting this).
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