Out of the weekend and into the proper start of my vacation, today was something of a lost day, actually. I didn’t do much more than watch a few episodes of 30 Rock and The Vampire Diaries. (I’ve never been good about keeping up with the former, and I’ve heard some good things about the latter, though I’m not quite sold on it just yet.)
This evening, before dinner, I took the dog to the vet to have a chronic ear infection looked at. And then, after dinner, I watched Conversations With Other Women. It’s an interesting movie, not quite what I expected, and if I’d been made aware of the fact that it’s a split-screen, following a long conversation between Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter from different angles and moments, I had forgotten that. As Tasha Robinson writes:
The effect is distracting, but it’s also strikingly intimate and voyeuristic, like studying a series of X-rays taken from all sides of a subject’s body.
Which makes it sound, by the end, much less appealing that it really is. The two leads, who are on camera for most of the running time, which is really just the two of them talking and flirting and remembering, are quite good and good together.
That was Monday, anyway.