Hans Canosa’s novelty flick consists of two gimmicks. The first is overt and grows old fast: the story is told entirely in split screen. The second is supposed to be a secret but is equally contrived. A man (Aaron Eckhart, wolfishly grinning) meets a woman (Helena Bonham Carter, neurotically smoking) at a wedding. They flirt and end up trying to seduce each other with dialogue that strains to be clever and enigmatic but sounds self-conscious and coy. A familiar story, barely skewed by the damned split screen, on which pop up flashbacks, flash-forwards, different angles, jump-cut repetitions, and seeming wish fulfillments or alternative outcomes. Maybe there’s some logic behind the contrasting images, some commentary on the irony of point of view and the follies of subjectivity. More likely it’s all a glib attempt to disguise a banal story and a bogus premise.On the Web
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