Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

tieman64 Directed by Hans Canosa, "Conversations With Other Women" stars Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter as a former couple who meet at a Manhattan wedding. Utilizing split-screens, the film mixes pasts, presents and subjective recollections."Time can't move in two directions," characters say. And later: "The illusion of effortlessness requires a great deal of effort." It's Canosa winking at his own filmic technique, but this aesthetic is, for the most, distracting rather than enlightening. Still, Eckhard and Carter do good work. Our duo shoot dialogue like javelins, their little speeches sketching a relationship in which perceptions, feelings and private delusions shift, reverse and dark back and forth. Man's a fickle things. Happiness too.7/10 – Worth one viewing.

George Wright Unusual but provocative, this movie draws us into the lives of two people who appear to meet casually but go on to bare their innermost lives and feelings. The repartee is fun and the interactions with other characters, though limited, are amusing. The main actors are Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart, two independent people who, despite their mutual attraction, are mature enough to hesitate getting involved in a evening together that they might regret. The dialogue between them reveals their private memories and regrets from a past that overlaps to some extent, as we will find out. The initial impression is of eavesdropping on an ongoing exchange between two strangers who are meeting for a one-night stand. But then, they freely unload themselves of their private feelings about the wedding and then delve into their pasts. The technique of showing past and present on a split screen or cutaways to one or the other draws the audience more fully into the encounter. A movie with great acting and some unpredictable situations, this is a movie that is worth seeing and left me wanting to see again.

lewiskendell Ever seen an entire movie in split-screen? First it's pretty cool and a little disorienting, then it seems a little unnecessary and gimmicky, and finally you get used to it. Was the movie better for it's rather unique approach? Maybe a little bit. It certainly wasn't worse. I appreciate what the filmmakers were trying to do, at the very least.As for the movie itself, it's an interesting take on the romantic genre.  A man meets a woman at a wedding reception, and it's slowly revealed that they have a history together. A history that isn't quite finished, despite the years that have passed since they've seen each other. You learn about their past and their present concurrently, thanks to the previously mentioned split-screen wizardry.Check it out if you're interested in an adult relationship story, with a bit of an experimental indie spin. I enjoyed it. I may have only decided to see it because of Olivia Wilde's small part, but it ended up being one of the more memorable and honest movies of this type that I've seen.

lone-plainsman This 84 minute film, shot in around two weeks, edited by hand on a Mac and employing a decidedly different visual appearance might seem to viewers to be so low budget or hand-made to be not worth watching. However, if you do watch it, you'll find it a rich, interesting and captivating gem of a film, well worth the effort it takes to find it! The film centers around two people - never named - who meet at a wedding reception and share an intense chemistry. Flirting turns to passion - and the conversations that follow prove to be the most interesting part of the story. The technique of shooting in split screen could easily have turned into a gimmick or an Oscar bid with bigger-budget movies. Here, however, it is perfectly used - providing two sides of the same story, past and present, here and there and points of view. We as an audience can edit the film ourselves, and while the process does take time to get used to, it leaves us with a film that will change every time we see it and gives us an almost infinite opportunity to notice new things. But the real showcase of this film is not the visuals or the budget: it is the acting. Helena Bonham-Carter soars as the far-from-home, potentially unhappy Woman, managing to show both comedic timing and realistic heartbreak. Not to be outdone, Aaron Eckhart gives a convincing performance as the witty yet troubled Man, and providing a perfect Yang to Bonham-Carter's Yin. The two actors have incredible chemistry, making the flirtatious opening scenes even more convincing, and fun. Also worth mentioning is the soundtrack, most of which is by French singer/songwriter and recent First Lady, Carla Bruni whose folk voice lends the perfect atmosphere to the action. The DVD itself has some pretty nice extras, including an interview with Aaron and Helena that was not widely released, in addition to a feature commentary with the director and a few other, more technical extras. In short, this is not a film to miss.