

November
is the kind of film that only a literate filmmaker would endeavor
to make, and Greg Harrison, in his second directorial outing,
demonstrates the sophisticated craft and incredible facility with
cinematic language essential to creating this riveting exploration
of the fragility of the mind and existence. Reminiscent of such
canonical films as Blow Up and Lost Highway, November is a totally
engrossing exercise in temporal narrative, memory, and the powerful
reality of images.
Anchored
by a superbly subtle and restrained performance by Courteney Cox,
this typically low-budget InDigEnt production centers around an
incident that occurs at a corner store in midtown Los Angeles,
when photographer Sophie Jacobs (Cox) and her boyfriend (James
LeGros) stop for ice cream on the way home from dinner. Waiting
in the car, blissfully unaware of the robbery that is taking place,
Sophie suddenly realizes that something has happened, but it's
too late. Traumatized by guilt and haunted by fragments of memory,
Sophie tries to get on with her life, but one day an image inexplicably
appears in a classroom presentation, and her whole world starts
to spin.
Harrison
slowly and deliberately reveals the truths hidden in this wonderfully
imaginative personal drama with a skill that belies his youth
but cannot cloud his importance as one of the best of an emerging
generation of film artists.
-Sundance
Film Catalog