CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN -- Hans Canosa, dir

©2005
studio: Arts Alliance Amer
production company: Gordonstreet Pictures
director: Hans Canosa
cast: Helena Bonham-Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Yury Tsykun, Brian Geraghty, Brianna Brown, Thomas Lennon, Erik Eidem, Nora Zehetner, David Franklin, Olivia Wilde
screenplay: Gabrielle Zevin

When a man and woman flirt with each other at a wedding reception, the sexual tension seems spontaneous. As they break from the party to a hotel room, the flirtation turns into a night filled with passion and remorse. [from imdb.com]

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I watched this on-line through Netflix.

I was totally absorbed in the split screen direction. Getting a different POV for each character was really interesting and actually did not become boring as I thought it might. Combine that split POV with some back soty POV and you have a really interesting film.

The story builds slowly and it does take some time for a greater part to develop, which helps keep the viewer interested. However, once the situation is abundantly clear, the rest of the films falls flat. I don't know that we like him well enough to hope that he succeeds at what he's doing, and perhaps we like her a little too well which makes us not pleased with what she gives in to.

It's a slow moving film with with a great deal of cat and mouse dialog in the beginning, but I recommend it simply based on the unique film style.