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Sweet November is based on the 1968 screenplay and does a very good job of modernising the story.

Advertising executive Nelson Moss (Keanu Reeves) is on top of the world. Or so he thinks. He has it all; a successful career, a fabulous girlfriend, and anything material that one could desire. However all this starts to change when he meets Sara Deever (Charlize Theron). Sara lives a happy and unconventional life and after meeting Nelson at a drivers license exam she goes to work on him.

Soon after Nelson manages to lose his life completely Job/Girlfriend and everything he thought had meaning to him all falls apart in the space of 24 hours. Sara however turns up again and rescues our Nelson in what turns out to be something quite unexpected.

Sara takes on Nelson for one month to show him that there is much more to life than he has grown to love. Nelson resists at first but eventually he finds that this isn’t so bad and begins to like his new carefree and much happier life.

Of course Nelson falls for Sara but of course this romance can never be.

This is the typical chick flick and you’ll have to see it to find out the twist in the end.

The colour palette is rich and highly saturated with nice autumn tones and bright brassy colours to compliment. The use of lighting has played well on the tones of the film.

There were no mpeg artefacts, only some small film to video artefacts in the form of minor ailiasing and no film artefacts to be found.

The soundtrack from Christopher Young is one of the more memorable ones I have heard recently and I often found myself listening to the score rather than the dialogue.