leonblackwood Review: This is a cleverly written movie about 2 childhood sweethearts that reunite at the wedding. The whole movie is shot with 2 cameras so your watching it from 2 different angles. The film really does seem like its shot without any takes and that it's one conversation between 2 people. There are only 2 characters through the majority of the movie, but as they are 2 top class actors, they do make the movie interesting and entertaining. I know that the movie is old, but I thought that I would give it a go as there isn't that many movies out this month. I'm glad that I chose this film because it's a very original and a different way of shooting a film. Surprisingly Enjoyable!Round-Up: Aaron Eckhart is another one of those actors that doesn't get the recognition that he is due. He was great in The Dark Knight and he was missed in The Dark Knight Rises. He was a great choice for this movie and the chemistry between him and Helen Bonham Carter was great. I must admit, I couldn't see where the hell the movie was going from the beginning, but once it starts going its funny and emotional in parts.Budget: $450,000 Worldwide Gross: $975,000I recommend this movie to people who are into there movies about 2 childhood sweethearts that reunite at a wedding. 6/10

secondtake Conversations with Other Women (2006)Once you grasp the ingenuity and elegance of the format of this movie, you might see how really smart it is at telling an intimate, meaningful story of two people who love each other. That is, the entire movie is shot in split screen, with the two halves always relating directly. Often, in fact usually, the two are views of the same moment, showing the two main characters, side by side, with slightly different angles.That might not seem like much, but it gives a sense of seeing almost two movies at once, or one movie from two different seats. Then sometimes a slight change occurs, with one side showing an earlier scene (the two had an earlier affair), or a parallel moment elsewhere in the room. And it reminds you of the reality they reside in. What could have been a distancing artistic ploy becomes a simple method for making everything more matter of fact and real. And realism, in this very normal, smart, young couple, is exactly what makes their love, in a second kind of affair, take on depth. Or show its shallowness as a deep kind of truth. One of the two or both! The most obvious parallel is the Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy moves "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset." In fact, this one is like both put together, since the two relationships between the same two people is assessed at once. It's not perfect, I'm sure of it, but I don't know why, because it surely sets out to do what it intended. Maybe it's so perfectly set up, so neatly packaged, that it feels like a project. But a well done, beautifully done one in its modest, real time directness.

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.

NovemberKin "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