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Novo

Each day is a new day... Each time, the first time...

2002 · 1h 38m · R Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin

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Overview

After an injury, Graham suffers from short-term memory loss, which causes him to fall back into the abyss of amnesia every 10 minutes. Those around him both profit and suffer from his condition -- his sex-crazed boss, Sabine, tricks him into regular trysts, while his family tries to come to terms with the situation. But when temp Irene starts working at Graham's company, they fall into an affair that begins to make a mark on his memory.

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While its provocative theme clearly has dramatic and comedic possibilities, the film mostly fails to realize them, content to provide a series of erotic encounters with plenty of opportunities for its lead performers to undress.

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh

Playfully sexy.

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Rotten

Sleek, attractive and ultimately vapid, Novo applies to sex and love the concept of short-term memory loss used to such acute dramatic effect in Memento.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

Limosin's elliptical narrative, meant to correlate with his protagonist's blank-slate mind, instead plays as desultory and just plain confused.

James Crawford, Village Voice

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