CATCH A LOVER SPLIT SCREEN MOVIE

Or should one say 'Man' and 'Woman'? To which my reply is unprintable on a family dotcom. I mean, why would you bother to split the screen when they are basically standing (or occasionally lying) next to one another in cramped quarters?Īh, comes the imagined cineaste reply, to symbolize the existential distance between them, the ineluctable difference between man and woman.

CATCH A LOVER SPLIT SCREEN MOVIE

There is utterly, totally, completely no reason to show 'Man' (Aaron Eckhart) and 'Woman' (Helena Bonham Carter) in anything but conventional movie terms.

It has been done before, but it's always fun to watch someone (in this case director Hans Canosa) pushing an envelope, even one that doesn't entirely aware need a shove.īut the film is essentially a two-person conversation with a little lovemaking thrown in, taking place in one small hotel room over the course of a few short hours. On the other hand, the news that Conversations with Other Women all 84 minutes of it was to be shot entirely in split-screen filled me with unreasoning anticipation. Split screen is generally a sometime thing in movies and television, since endlessly divided attention grows tiresome in large doses. And those are done in ways that can, potentially at least, enhance suspense which always depends on the audience knowing in advance the bad, impending stuff. Although it has often been used merely for flashy effect, it is the only method of efficiently imparting simultaneously occurring events. As a technique, split screen has been around almost since the beginning of the movies. All those paranoids simultaneously plotting one another's destruction in far-flung locations, yet unaware of what, specifically, the other guys and gals are up-except activities that will, by the end of the episode, result in one or more individuals being prettily tied up and awaiting some high-tech unpleasantness to be continued (but not necessarily concluded) the following Monday. I didn't know that until recently, when I became that most pathetic of cultural victims a 24 addict.

Catch a lover split screen