The premise is quite interesting (although there are a couple of films that have this idea present in them:
Intimacy and
L'Ennui): Two strangers talk on the phone every week (with usually some kind of sexual activity alluded to or performed on self) and never meet up. Supposedly, they don't form any kind of relationship, but really they do. The conversations are very natural, the acting simultaneously intense and relaxed (i.e., realistic). There's a certain charm to the simplicity of how the film is set up. You see him. You see her. There are really only two characters in the entire film (you see the shadow of another person walking by in one scene). It's not quite what it could have been, though. The tensions that build up are sometimes rather random or not followed through on. The motivations of the characters are
too mysterious, crossing the line from intriguing ambiguity to just plain confusion (see the review on
Charlotte Sometimes. One other similarity
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Sometimes is the totally abrupt ending that is meant to leave you wondering, and it does just that! It leaves you wondering whether or not the film maker ran out of film...
--A.Y.