Absolutely amazing

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

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.

this isn't one for the action junkie or the easily bored but its a genial, subtle, enjoyable yarn about two people who meet at a wedding and as always happens on these occasions, hook up. Well thats how it appears at the start with the innocent flirting. Eventually you find out the "history" the couple have together and I'm still not clear if they actually were married briefly or not. I saw this on TV so didn't get the whole split-screen effect which people got if they saw the movie so this review may be different from others but there were split-screen flashbacks from when the couple were together 15/20 years ago before and with some good editing, it added an innovative touch to the movie. This had a well written script and kept the audience guessing as to the true nature of the relationship, whether they would actually sleep together in the hotel room and whether Helena Bonham Carter would postpone her trip home. Without sounding too shallow, i think Mrs Tim Burton is about as sexy as a sack of potatoes so having Eckhart fawn all over her like she was gods gift was unconvincing but beauty in eye of beholder and all that. But if you like relationship movies and enjoyed before sunset/sunrise see this.

"Conversations with other Women" is, if the title isn't obvious enough in that statement, a romantic comedy with a touch more to the ironic style. The film is basically about a man (Eckhart) who meets a woman (Bonham Carter)at a wedding. The couple at the beginning of the film wants us to believe that this is the first time they've ever met, the annoying part of it is that at the end of the movie we know that they actually have a rich and colourful history. But they keep playing the "we've met for the first time" through out the whole movie which makes you feel kind of cheated. It is although in many ways rich in it's character build up due to the fact that there can at times be two stories told in one shot (using Duo Vision). But the story failed to make me interested because of them constantly behaving like strangers to each other, which makes it fairly hard to get emotionally attached to the characters.What made this movie worth watching is that it was shown in so called "Duo Vision" meaning that the screen is cut in half and the left and right part are showing different things, therefore making it very interesting with the flash back scenes and you get back story at the same time as something less interesting is happening in real time.I do not recommend this movie as a love story type movie, there have been many movies, similar to this one where the movie is mostly or entirely dialog based. The ones that strike me as the most similar are Linklaters "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset", where you feel that these people are authentic making the camera unnoticeable and giving you at that time a feeling that your stuck in the moment with them.Using the "Duo Vision" through out the movie was an interesting concept and sometimes worked very effectively but it just doesn't work all of the time in a movie where love is the main focus of attention. But seeing and even talking about intimate stuff you want to feel unnoticeable which isn't working good here.The style that was tried to be executed was something that I like and in fact it didn't fail all over, I like the story but not how it was presented therefor I give it a 6/10