Canosa demonstrates a playful and inventive filmmaking style with this insightful story of a relationship told from various perspectives
Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:41
Rotten:15
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: The chemistry between stars Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart carries this intimate tale of middle-aged romance.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for language and sexual content
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Theatrical Release
Theatrical Release:18-05-2007
Synopsis: Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter give dazzling performances in Hans Canosa's CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN. Playing unnamed characters, Eckhart and Bonham Carter meet up at a New York City... Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter give dazzling performances in Hans Canosa's CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN. Playing unnamed characters, Eckhart and Bonham Carter meet up at a New York City wedding and start flirting in a back room. Slowly it becomes evident that they have some kind of past together. As they consider spending the night in her hotel room -- and how that will affect their current lives -- secrets are revealed and futures are put in jeopardy. CONVERSATIONS is primarily a two-character drama, an acting tour de force for Eckhart (ERIN BROCKOVICH, THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING) and Bonham Carter (A ROOM WITH A VIEW, THE WINGS OF A DOVE). Director Canosa (ALMA MATER) shot the film in dual frame, shooting every scene with two cameras in order to capture different emotions and angles, and then projects them in split screen. Thus, the two frames sometimes show the same action from differing perspectives, and other times the present can be seen on one screen and the past on the other (as well as an imagined past, present, or future). The split-screen-effect results in longer takes and stronger emotions, allowing the audience inside the minds of these two not necessarily very likable characters. Gabrielle Zevin's script is biting and cynical yet romantic, giving depth to the man and the woman even though the film is just them talking for nearly an hour and a half. The soundtrack features compelling songs by Carla Bruni and Rilo Kiley. [More]
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Nora Zehetner, Cerina Vincent
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Nora Zehetner, Cerina Vincent, Brianna Brown, Thomas Lennon, Olivia Wilde, Bryan Geraghty, Yury Tsykun, David Franklin
Director: Hans Canosa
Director: Hans Canosa
Screenwriter: Gabrielle Zevin
Producer: Ram Bergman, Bill McCutchen, Kjehl Rasmussen
Composer: Starr Parodi
Studio: Fabrication Films
Reviews for Conversation(s) with Other Women
a soothing salve for blockbuster-bruised cinemagoers starved, like Conversations' own lovers, for something real and substantial
... a high-concept chamber drama in which the screen expresses what the two fumbling former lovers can't.
An unconventional love story about a couple who try to recapture the enchantment of their long-ago relationship and learn they have to let go with equanimity in middle age.
The charm of Conversations With Other Women, a gimmicky but oddly moving two-character drama that flies in from who knows where, is its intelligent knowingness.
a slippery delight with as much tension as a standard thriller, but the smarts of a literate drama, both of which it is.
An intimate movie in every sense, Conversations With Other Women sets out to explore well-trammeled yet at the same time uncharted territory without grinding any axes.
It's hard to think of a recent movie that nails the circular games of adults trying to get laid and then talking their way out of it.
The film is technically brilliant but emotionally shallow; take away the split screen gimmick, and you have a romantic drama that wouldn't be worth its running time.
That the movie holds viewers' attention despite its contrivances is a testament to the script and acting.
Might never have worked if not for the personality, charm and palpable chemistry between its two leads.
The observations about love and sex and time and memory are uncommonly sharp and true.
Director Hans Canosa's bittersweet chronicle of an encounter between two unnamed guests at a New York City wedding reception is a daring, feature-length experiment in 'dual-frame' or 'split-screen' filmmaking.
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