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Monday, August 29, 2005

November

November stars Courtney Cox and has Ann Archer as a supporting cast member, but they are the only "name" actors in the film.

If you like style over substance, this is a good movie. If not, it's the pits.

Ms. Cox plays a female instructor of photo arts who is coming home from dinner with her boyfriend and feels a hunger for chocolate ice cream. She sends him into the neighborhood convenience market to buy some for her and while she is in the car distracted by loud music from the car's radio, and by reading an artsy-fartsy tabloid, he is shot to death in a robbery.

Shortly thereafter, while viewing some student slides, a slide appears which seems to have been taken during the robbery, for there is the store and there is the car with her in it. Scary shit! What does it mean?

Unfortunately, this is one of those movies that not only doesn't answer ANY of your questions, but in which you know seem to know less and less as time goes by until at the end, you're unsure of anything.

Was the boyfriend killed or was she killed with the movie as her dying thoughts? Or, alternatively, were they both killed in the robbery? How can a photo on her wall before the crime occurred have been taken from the crime scene?

I could go on...

This is one of those movies that seems like an art school student's class project. Today, too many students waste their time and talent on that school of art which has given up producing art with a value based on beauty or idea or even utility and instead has decided to toy with the public by giving them puzzling art. Art whose sole raison d'etre is to confound and annoy.

The movie seems to have been shot in a combination of camcorder video and 16mm or even 8mm film. Don't expect Hollywood production values! Instead, expect it to look "arty." And it does. LIke I said, style over substance.

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