More reviews for "Conversations"...

-"Bonham Carter is equally good as she uses the emotional distance of flirtation to keep intimacy at arm's length, fully embodying the comment: "The illusion of effortlessness takes great effort indeed."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/282467_women25q.html

-"fine acting and sexy chemistry between Bonham Carter and Eckhart make it work. "

TV Guide: http://online.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=281314&more=ucmoviereview

-"It's about adults, as well, dealing with the romantic aspirations of two middle-aged people and their accumulated choices and regrets. Both Bonham Carter and Eckhart are good at giving us their characters' practiced surface and the truth that's underneath it. Eckhart's smile is about as engaging and thoroughly untrustworthy as that of anyone in the current cinema, and our wondering about him is part of the movie's suspense. Likewise, Bonham Carter's prickliness, as the woman, could be the indication of either strong, uncompromising character or mere irritability. "

San Francisco Chronicle: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/11/DDGRSKESO01.DTL&type=movies

-"As for Bonham Carter, Tim Burton movies and new motherhood have kept her from wandering of late into roles like this, which is our loss. Always a vivid actress, she gets more interesting with each passing year -- more adept at conveying undercurrents of passion, knowledge, wit, dread. Age genuinely becomes Carter, unlike most of her bland Hollywood peers, and I'm beginning to think we haven't seen her best work yet."

Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=9279

-"Writer Gabrielle Zevin has an acerbic, peppery tone, especially when it comes to Bonham Carter's pungent observations on aging, and director Hans Canosa uses what could be an irritating split-screen conceit to its full advantage, making "Conversations With Other Women" a rather ingenious experiment in structure. The film ultimately becomes too contrived to be anything but a fleeting diversion, but kudos to these emerging filmmakers for daring to make something a little bit different and, for the most part, intriguing. And props to the gorgeously haggard Bonham Carter for daring to age so honestly on film."

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=1106920&categories=Movies&nm=1

-"Bonham Carter transcends all that, and in her cool, wryly self-mocking fashion she manages to reveal all sorts of inner-life tensions. This minor relationship picture comes and goes, but her performance lingers."

Chicago Tribune: http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-060825-movies-review-women,0,5428225.story?coll=mmx-movies_top_heds

-"Carter gives a wise and wonderfully rueful performance"

Village Voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0632,taylor,74128,20.html



There are bunches more, but I don't have time to post them at the moment. I might later :-)

Conversations with Other Women Part II

So, "Conversations with Other Women" is out in the US (finally) and Helena has been getting rave reviews. Here is a review that praises the dickens out of Helena:


"THIS TALK ISN'T CHEAP
By KYLE SMITH

August 11, 2006 -- Rating: ***1/2
REMEMBER Helena Bonham Carter? "Conversations With Other Women" jolts us back to who she was before her partner Tim Burton started dressing her as an ape ("Planet of the Apes") or a witch. Having been locked up in Burton's toy chest for so long, she is all the more dazzling in this wistful two-character infidelity drama.
Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart play ex-lovers whose names we never learn. Fifteen years after they first dated, they run into each other at a wedding. The man approaches with two flutes of champagne and an invitation to a long night twinkling in his cad's eyes. She's happily married. He's dating a dancer. He doesn't understand how a married woman can be a brides-maid: "Bridesmaids are brides in training. They're like matrimonial interns."
As the two of them decide whether they still like each other (yes), whether they're flirting (heavily) and whether they're going to get a room (possibly), the script by Gabrielle Zevin is honest and tender at the same time.
The strength of the writing, though, is undercut by an annoying gimmick: For the entire movie, we watch a split screen with a different image on each side. Each actor is usually isolated on half the screen. Still, the trick gets less distracting as the film goes on because Bonham Carter is such a virtuoso that you learn to park your attention on her. Her expression flickers from haggard to girlish, from sarcastic to wounded. When she says, "It's quite easy to lie once you get started," she layers the line with a wedding cake of emotions. It's brilliant work. And how can you not like a movie that shows a bridesmaid's dress flying out the window?
CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMENFlirting with adultery.Running time: 84 minutes. Not rated (profanity, nudity, sex)."

SOURCE: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/movies/this_talk_isnt_cheap_movies_kyle_smith.htm

Harry Potter

Still no pics of Helens from the new Harry Potter film, but here are some pics of the other stars: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1414202006

If you have new pics of Helena, please send the m to me or leave a link in a comment. Thanks

Hmmm...New Movie?

IMDB, which isn 't very trustworthy, is reporting that Helena Bonham Carter is going to star in a new movie called "Eleanor and Collette" with Susan Sarandon. Here is the plot:

"Eleanor (Sarandon), a patient at a psychiatric institute, retains Colette (Bonham Carter), an attorney, to represent her complaint against the hospital, which has been prescribing her psychopharmacological drugs. During the lengthy process, the two women bond and form a special friendship."

Apparently, the film will be shooting in the Spring after Helena completes "Harry Potter". Who knows if this is real or not.