Conversations with Other Women (2005) on Netflix
R20051h 24m
A man brings champagne to a bridesmaid at a New York wedding reception, and the two fall into flirtation. Both have partners elsewhere, and they go up to her hotel room.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.9/1013,619 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes74%
Trailer
Plot summary
Two people in their late thirties meet at a wedding reception in New York, where a man offers a bridesmaid a glass of champagne. They talk, and the talk becomes flirtation, moving over the wedding party around them and their own past relationships. The attraction between them is one neither admits, and both have partners who are not at the wedding, his a twenty-two-year-old dancer, hers a cardiologist. He seems uncertain about where his life is headed, while she seems more at ease with the choices she has made. They leave the reception and go upstairs to her hotel room, a decision that carries complications for each of them.
Cast
- Erik Eidemas Young Man
- Philip Littellas Jeffrey the Cardiologist
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Conversations with Other Women (2005)
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- Five shots in the final edit showed the actors' dirty bare feet, so the visual effects supervisor rotoscoped the soles; rather than shoot replacement soles against greenscreen, the compositor found the best high-resolution feet photographs on foot fetish websites.
- The film has 117 "invisible" visual effects shots; after VFX houses bid over $1 million, then $400,000 as a low budget, producer Kwesi Collision did all the effects himself in four months using Adobe After Effects and Shake.
- Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter, the film's two leads, shot 82 pages of dialogue in only 12 days of principal photography.
- An editor hired to cut the film quit after an initial assembly, citing difficulty with the dual-frame split screen presentation. The director, who had never cut a film before, learned the editing software himself and acted as editor.
- The movie's final shot was the only one captured with a single camera: Eckhart and Bonham Carter were filmed in the back of one taxi, and in post-production the shot was digitally divided in two, with two separate background plates composited to create the illusion of different taxi interiors.
- For the sex scene, the director asked the actors to stay in the bed while the crew quickly changed camera positions to get all the coverage; the entire scene, including 10 camera setups and a complex dolly shot, was completed in 45 minutes.
- Many scenes were shot in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner building, which has been used almost exclusively as a film location since the newspaper, once owned by William Randolph Hearst, closed down in 1989.
