Conversations With Other Women Reviews

Pining affair for mature art house fans.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Director Hans Canosa has made a split-screen experimental student film about two would-be lovers who connect after a wedding party in New York City.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

...although infused with a number of truthful moments and an awfully romantic atmosphere, director Hans Canosa's use of split-screen remains a distraction throughout the film's admittedly brisk running time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Engrossing from start to finish, Conversations with Other Women is a stimulating man/woman tussle about life, love and the whole damn thing. It's funny, unexpected, philosophical and romantic with a dash of melancholy thrown in for good measure

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Initially, the split screen seems like a quirky idea. But it gets old fast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

An intriguing deconstruction of a failed relationship, long past its point of no return.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Canosa demonstrates a playful and inventive filmmaking style with this insightful story of a relationship told from various perspectives

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A near-perfect amalgamation of cinematic technique and content.

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One of the most realistically romantic movies I've seen in a while. And I'm not easily impressed by what generally passes for "movie romance."

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

The film is technically brilliant but emotionally shallow; take away the split screen gimmick, and you have a romantic drama that wouldn't be worth its running time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

You spend more time watching the technique than the interplay between Carter and Eckhart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

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The charm of Conversations With Other Women, a gimmicky but oddly moving two-character drama that flies in from who knows where, is its intelligent knowingness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The observations about love and sex and time and memory are uncommonly sharp and true.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Eckhart delivers a complicated performance, veering from aggressive to abashed, and stopping at puppy-eager, jealous, and conflicted along the way.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Eckhart delivers a complicated performance, veering from aggressive to abashed, and stopping at puppy-eager, jealous, and conflicted along the way

Full Review | Original Score: B

The gimmick has its poetic moments, but the actors can't do much to make screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin's strategems for characters seem like real people.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

There's a reason Before Sunrise and Before Sunset were done as two movies, not one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's hard to imagine a Gallic film would make such an issue of Carter's character being over the hill at 40 or straight-facedly claiming that Eckhart is fat by any reasonable definition.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

It can be tricky to watch both screens at once (Conversations With Other Women rewards multiple viewings), but it's invigorating to see a filmmaker exploring technique as metaphor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4