Movie Review

So yesterday I watched 'Conversations With Other Women' (2005). It might have been the best movie I've ever seen. Normally I really don't like movies that even remotely suggest that they are romantic comedies, because all the romantic comedies I've seen are extremely predictable. Conversations, however, is really original. Before I write any more about how great this movie was, I should tell you the plot.
SPOILER ALERT! If you don't want to know the ending, stop HERE!

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A man and a woman (you never hear their names) meet at a wedding. They start to talk, and by flashbacks and a lot of suggestions you find out that they were once married. After they divorced, the woman moved from New York to London, but the man stayed in New York. The woman married to a cardiologist named Geoffrey (or Jeffrey. The subtitles said Jeffrey, but Wikipedia said Geoffrey) and the man got a steady girlfriend named Sarah. Even though both the woman and the man have seperate relationships they decide to have sex in the woman's hotel room, just before she has to go back to London. They reminisce about the past and the man finds out that the woman has children. Both of the people feel very guilty and stupid. After this, the woman goes back to London. The last shot is of the man and the woman sitting in seperate cabs, discussing life and luck with the cab driver.

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What I really liked about the movie was the way the cameras were used: It isn't as smooth as with most big budget movies. That way, it really gives you the feeling you are there.
As I said before, it is really great that the plot isn't predictable. It is just a simple love/hate story, without any supernatural, dislogical (is that a word?), not-believable layers. The only thing that is really predictable is the moment when the woman puts her phone next to the man's phone. Because the phones are almost identical, you know that they're going to take the wrong phone. However, instead of filming it obviously, it is kind of hidden in the rest of the movie.
What I liked about the acting was that it was extremely natural. I've watched a few interviews with Helena Bonham Carter (who plays the woman by the way), and in the movie she talks just as natural as in interviews.
Only one thing was kind of disappointing: I heard about the movie being a split screen wonder. Almost the whole movie was shot for split screen. So I was really excited to see the split screen part. Turns out they changed it for dvd :(. Only three parts were in split screen: the introduction, the sex scene and the cab scene.
So, altogether this dvd has a load of pluses, including Helena Bonham Carter, who is close to a godess in my eyes, and one minus, which is heavily outweighed by the awesomeness of this movie.

WATCH IT OR BE A SQUARE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!

Oh, and the best line of the movie was:

Woman: 'Oh, you're so romantic...'
Man: 'By romantic, you mean, what, old fashioned?'
Woman: 'No, by romantic... I mean romantic.'