By Patrick Luce Feb 6, 2006, 15:37 GMT
Courteney Cox and James Le Gros star in November - a stylish psychological thriller from director Greg Harrison – now available on DVD in the UK from Sanctuary Visual Entertainment.
With a support cast that includes Academy Award nominee Anne Archer, Michael Ealy and Nora Dunn, November premiered in the Dramatic Competition at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win the Cinematography Award.
The film explores a woman's struggle to transcend trauma through a surreal blend of emotion and memory. The narrative and visual style are comprised of dreamlike moments and images stemming from her subjective experience, blurring the line between reality and the unconscious.
After a dinner out, photographer Sophie Jacobs (Cox) and her boyfriend Hugh (Le Gros) stop at a corner store for a late night snack. While Sophie waits unaware in the car, Hugh is murdered in a violent robbery. Haunted by guilt, Sophie goes on with her life as best she can: teaching photography at a local art college, meeting her mother (Archer) for lunch, and visiting her therapist (Dunn).
But one day at college, a slide mysteriously appears in the projector's carousel: an image of what looks like her car in front of the corner store the night of the shooting. Are these paranoid visions stemming from her grief and guilt, or does someone know something about the murder? As her investigation deepens, more strange events start to occur, drawing into question exactly what happened the night of Hugh's death. As Sophie struggles with her memory of that night, her life becomes like a photograph itself, an image refracted through a lens - with as much outside the frame as in.
November is available at AmazonUK. The DVD is also available at Amazon. Visit the DVD’s database for more information.
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