"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
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