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
"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
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