Review of Conversations with Other Women (2006) by Lorin T — 26 Jan 2010
So I really wanted to see this movie to see if the director (Hans Canosa) was going to be able to pull off the split screen sequences throughout the whole movie. I love movies with risky editing. The movie takes place between a nameless man, Aaron Eckhart, and woman, Helena Bonham Carter, as they meet at a wedding and slowly we learn they have a long history together.
The movie is shot with split screen the whole time and it works! One critic said its 'technique with a metaphor' and that really does sum it up. The split screen is very useful to show flashbacks, alternate realities and the actions/reactions of the two characters.
Eckhart and Carter really have a great chemistry which is a must for a movie pretty much centered on two characters only. The movie was about 120 minutes but really could've been cut down to about 100.
It was brilliantly done with the editing which was not distracting and you started to even forget you were watching a split screen movie.Overall, I loved it for the editing and innovativess however if it was done like every other two character movie, it probably wouldn't have been as interesting.
Priceless quote, "It's so ****ing hard to be happy".
This review of Conversations with Other Women (2006) was written by Lorin T on 26 Jan 2010.
Conversations with Other Women has generally received positive reviews.
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