Thanks for the memories!

Excellent adaptation.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Greg Harrison's November is one of those frustratingly opaque, reality bending sketchy thrillers where a metaphysical shudder is sent through someone's fabric of existence, in this case that of photography professor Courtney Cox. Driving home late one night, her husband (James LeGros) runs in to a Kwik-E-Mart to grab her a snack right at the same moment a burglar (Matthew Carey) brandishes a gun, and then open fires. After he's killed, you feel like the film is in for a run of the mill grieving process as she visits a therapist (Nora Dunn). Events take a detour down Twilight Zone alley though when a spooky photograph shows up amongst one of her student's portfolios, a snapshot of that very night at the store, apparently zoomed in on her husband. Who took it? Is the man actually dead? Will the film provide the concrete answers that some viewers so fervently salivate for in these types of films? Not really, as a heads up. As soon as things begin to get weird, they pretty much stay that way for the duration of the exceedingly short runtime (it clocks in under eighty minutes!). Cox's character revisits that fateful night from many different angles and impressions, either reliving it, recreating it or simply stuck in some sort of alternate time loop chain. There's a policeman played by Nick Offerman who offers little in the way of help, and she's left more or less on her own through this fractured looking glass of garbled mystic confusion. The tone and aesthetic of it are quite something though, a jerky, stark Polaroid style mood-board that evokes ones like The Jacket and Memento, with an art house industrial touch to the deliberately closeup, disoriented visuals. It's a bit maddening from the perspective of someone only looking for answers, and if that's why you came, you'll be left wringing your hands and losing sleep. If you enjoy the secrets left unravelled, and are a viewer who revels in unlocked mysteries left that way, recognizing the potent energies distilled from unexplained ambiguity, give it a go.

Having heard that November was a confusing and complex psychological thriller, in the line of MEMENTO and MULHOLLAND DRIVE (at least it's what's written in the cover of the Portuguese DVD edition!...), my attention was called over it. I didn't watch MEMENTO yet but MULHOLLAND DRIVE is just a main reference to me. David Lynch is just my favorite director by the way… "Well, if November is in the line of that, my friend, we will have a great film here" I thought! But unfortunately it's not! What happens is that people who do the plot summaries abuse on movies' comparisons, comparing films which have nothing to do with the ones they are describing just to call attention! And one more time it happened here! About MEMENTO I really don't know because I didn't even watch the movie, but about comparing it to MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Christ! It has nothing to do! And why am I telling you this? Just to explain that I had my expectation very high to this movie (because of the mentioned comparison) and it couldn't fulfill my expectation, not because it's a bad movie, but because I was expecting something different! In fact I enjoyed the movie, especially the cinematography (it's very nice with those flashing lights and zoomed shots) and the fragmented plot, but it ends being much more simple and easy to understand than I was expecting.(SPOILER) The entire film is just a state of mind of the main character SOPHIE JACOBS (played by Courtney Cox) which is dying. She passes through "Denial", "Despair" and "Acceptance" before she dies, at the end… This ending is very close to the one of a more recent movie, STAY, which I watched some time ago. (END SPOILER) The main idea is quite interesting but the plot ends being too short and flat. So as I was expecting something more complex, confusing, intriguing and especially unsolved (as I use to appreciate!) I felt a bit disappointed; but even so I enjoyed the cinematography and the main idea so I score this movie with an 8/10.

Well, I will admit is not the worse job I have seen done but they moved toward the mark. Shots are too long, too many empty staircases, unnecessary shots. I mean if you think you would like to take a nap while seeing it, that's the right movie for you. No matter how long the nap you won't miss anything important. Take my word for it. After the initial two minutes when the boyfriend (who she was cheating with another guy) is shot down there is nothing worth the pain. Jesus. My guess is they wanted to make something nobody's ever done. Maybe they did. Of course I am pretty sure they weren't counting on breaking a box office record. If there will be any box office sellout at all, which I doubt. Should have gone straight to video.

Among the worst movies you will ever see. It is a movie that offers a poor plot, and is really a short played over 3 times with various endings. You really have no idea what is going on at any one point in the movie. It would be nice to say the acting is a good part but that too is lousy. Then of course there is the photography part which was what intrigues me in the first place, but that was lousy too. There are several ridiculous parts to the movie like Courtney cutting herself on a picture that fell off the wall, no blood, and when the photo is retrieve the glass is cracked but nothing protruding where one could be cut. Duh! How dumb. If you like stupidity this is the movie for you. All in all if you have nothing else to do on a rainy day, watch the rain instead.