cannot believe courteney cox agreed to do a movie this horrible after being a friends star. i like psychological thrillers, but this is just plain bizarre.
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Evidently, people getting shot is one of the only topics for American movies. No wonder the Euros see us as uncivilized. In this one, Courtney Cox's boyfriend buys the farm in a convenience store. We see it over and over and over. It's part of some muddled plot about how she grieves. Was she really there? It's a psychological thing. At least, this only runs 68 minutes. Barely worth the time investment.
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Moving and Memorable
Added 3/1/2009
I don't usually like fractured story lines or stories that loop us back through re-plays of an event. However, this movie brings something different to what is too often just arty technique. This movie kept me engaged, trying to guess what would be the meaning and solution to its recursions. It poignantly captures the melancholy of the second-to-the-last month, the month that can swing us like a pendulum - from chill anticipations of winter, back to the warmth of sunnier days.
There are two commentaries on the disc. The first one is done by the Director and Writer, and is more general. The second commentary, with Director and Cinematographer, is much more technical, covering such topics as screens, gels, backdrop, camera focus, etc. This second commentary would serve as a good preliminary course in cinematography for any aspiring filmmaker.
So there's more than one reason to check out this movie and to let it linger and re-play in your memory.
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Moody Blues
Added 2/28/2009
On November 7 something terrible happened to Courteney Cox, but we don't find out the real dimensions of what went wrong till the very last minutes of the movie. Again and again we see the single calendar page, November 7, torn off a wall calendar in a shabby convenience store in a skuzzy urban neighborhood late at night.
Michael Ealy from the Barbershop movies and the man who played opposite Halle Berry in Their Eyes Were Watching God, has a brief role here as a coworker with whom Cox falls into an adulterous romance. This must have been during a lull in Ealy's career, or he was doing it as a favor to a friend, for he is decidedly playing 4th, 5th, or 6th fiddle to a cast of other bleak faces, including Nora Dunn as a psychologist, trying to figure out why Courteney Cox is having such terrible headaches. And then there is Anne Archer as her bossy mother--Anne Archer is a welcome presence always, but isn't she a little young to be playing the mother of edgy, fortyish Courteney? The filmmakers have given Archer the slack makeup of a drunk, along with a pair of siliconed lips that seem to slid slide all over her face like skaters on wet ice.
Antonioni should have sued, for the film borrows his rarefied ennui as well as that failproof throughline of a photographer endlessly blowing up photos to find hidden clues to what really happened. The stars of November are all fairly good, but terribly hampered by the lousy dialogue, and the threadbare storyline they are given. The film's suspenseful, because you are anxiously wondering throughout the whole thing if it could really be as obvious as it seems. Either you get the whole thing within the first five minutes, or you really need some L-creatine sprinkled in your popcorn.
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Don't waste your time or money...
Hey, at least it was short.
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