Notes from November

From November's movie-watching, reading, and theater-going - in haiku ...

1

Aliens land. Friend? Foe?

Adams soars. Film grammar play:

The flashback reframed.

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Lila and Lenu -

Girlhood in Naples. What drives

Friendship? Rivalry?

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Dad dies, Penny meets

Squatters. Skewers activists.

Reader must like quirk.

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"Traffic" in Punjab.

Collisions feel too contrived.

Seriousness kills high.

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Serb turns to black cat.

Fear of assimilation,

Losing ethnic past.

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Old flame visits with

Script. Doubles, Hitchcock, and the

Femme fatale re-dressed.

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"Blow Up" sendup, two

Men expose murder, corruption -

Systems collapse farce.

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Widow offs five men.

Hitchcock homage by Truffaut.

Jeanne Moreau commands.

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More than just noir,

A love story, too. Deneuve 

Is joy / hurt, hot / cold.

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Nate recalls break-ups.

Dies. Truth: life's ephemeral.

Awesome tilting set.

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Moana restores 

Goddess' heart.  Digital peak

Of water effects.

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Markie in Winesburg

I'll-fitted/ fated. Late Roth,

Same misogyny?

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Bruno's blot removed

In Berkeley. Player? Or played?

There's always rebirth.