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Some grown-up entertainment at last!

Conversation with Other Women is precisely the kind of movie for moviegoers above 30, because it deals with the regrets and disappointment of failed relationships, shattered dreams and buried hopes. More to the point, it deals with the feelings of a man and woman who used to be in love with each other, but have lived separate lives for many years.

Older gay and dykes would surely appreciate a film like this, because it zeroes in on the complicated emotions of loving and unloving � instead of the dumb formula of "boy meets girl, boy sleeps with girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back" found in teen romances.

Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter deliver perfect-pitch performances as a man and a woman who meet at a wedding. They act like strangers at first, flirting with each other, but it is gradually revealed that the two know each other only too well, and that they were once in love with each other. Both talk about their marriages and the sins of their pasts and the dimming hopes of their futures, which may or may not include each other...

Shot in a split-screen style to keep both Aaron and Helena constantly on the screen, the film will appeal to more mature fags. As we older fags know, relationship between two individuals are very hard. Nobody wins in the end, but the unforgettable moments of tenderness and beauty make them worth the heartbreaks.