That the movie holds viewers' attention despite its contrivances is a testament to the script and acting.
Conversations with Other Women
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United Kingdom, United States · 2006
Rated R · 1h 24m
Director Hans Canosa
Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Yury Tsykun, Brian Geraghty
Genre Drama, Romance
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Reunited at a wedding after many years, a former couple feels the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explores the choices of the past that lead them to the present.
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I found the film powerfully erotic, although it has minimal nudity and no explicit sex.
The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
In the end, the problem with Conversations with Other Women is not that it pulls an ordinary romance into unfamiliar shapes but that it doesn't pull far enough. It may be dotted with fine observations, yet somehow the charm of its novelty grows stale, and the airless feeling of a closed set begins to fester.
Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano
An intimate movie in every sense, Conversations With Other Women sets out to explore well-trammeled yet at the same time uncharted territory without grinding any axes. What it offers is a modest fantasy that will be familiar to contemporaries of Bonham Carter and Eckhart especially. It's sad and funny, satisfying and frustrating, totally familiar.
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
None of it is quite believable -- the film is too studied, too forward in its conceits to be entirely satisfying -- but Mr. Eckhart and Ms. Bonham Carter approach their roles with intelligence and conviction.
The fine acting and sexy chemistry between Bonham Carter and Eckhart make it work.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
The actors, who portray a reunion that is more sparring match than love fest, strike occasional sparks.
The battle of the sexes is restaged to clever but inconsequential effect in Conversations With Other Women. Very much a case of old wine in a new bottle.
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