Armed with a politician’s smile and a schoolboy’s charm it’s as if he’s always a moment away from trying to sell us something. His turn might be just as good as Bonham Carter’s, but his performance is so relaxed that it doesn’t feel like acting.
Tucked into her pink dress Bonham Carter is a stunning almost-40 bridesmaid, though you get the sense that her character isn’t just waxing poetic when she notes that “the illusion of effortlessness takes quite a bit of effort indeed.”Īt the other end of the spectrum, Eckhart makes it look all too easy. Here she seems nothing but human: her lower eyelids a little wrinkly, her hair done up and yet a bit disheveled, her abdominals hidden by a beautiful bit of tummy. In Planet Of The Apes, Bonham Carter made for a surprisingly sexy simian, but this is so much better.
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The actress appears in at least a movie a year but recently she’s been obscured by heavy makeup and hideous wigs in the films of her director husband Tim Burton. Seeing Bonham Carter on the screen is a joy. This is as confidently-acted a film as you’ll come across, starring a pair of veterans who are wound up and then unleashed to fantastic results. Zevin’s script provides a treasure trove of superb dialogue, but it’s the actors who make the lines sparkle like polished gemstones. Their characters are entirely foreign to one another and yet as close as family at the same time. Then again, what is love without magic, and what is magic without illusion? In a pair of marvelous performances Eckhart and Bonham Carter defy what should be possible. The bond that they share is merely illusionary. They are jaded, a bit cynical and experienced enough to know that the excitement they feel in one another’s presence will go flat along with the champagne bubbles. Yet these characters are more pragmatic than the philosophizing, love-drunk pair played so touchingly by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
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Written by Gabrielle Zevin, the screenplay is almost nothing but talk and reminds of the Richard Linklater films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, encapsulating a full relationship from birth to death in a matter of hours. With a running time of 84 minutes, Conversations unfolds more or less in real time over the course of one late night. Quickly we realize that it isn’t the horizontal mambo they’re craving, it’s the waltz. And so even if they know immediately that they will go to bed together – attending a wedding reception in the banquet hall of a New York hotel they are tantalizingly close to so many empty rooms – they dance the dance. But there are rituals to be followed, a certain level of etiquette to be respected. Instantly they recognize one another’s type, and soon we learn that they might know each other even better than that. In Conversations With Other Women the Man and Woman characters – we never learn their names – meet again and for the first time.
She sees both of them for what they are: too old for this sort of thing. He sees her almost-40 figure for the twentysomething she used to be. She plays defense effortlessly, like a woman who has been a bridesmaid before. He advances relentlessly, like a guy who knows that bridesmaids are supposed to be easy targets. She takes him in with the dark, haunting eyes that could only belong to Helena Bonham Carter. He sidles up to her with the too-charming-to-be-trustworthy swagger that is fast becoming Aaron Eckhart’s trademark.
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