"Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity) is a great moralizer and a great moral inquisitor, but he's also a great journalist. In the opening stages of November Days, Ophuls's investigation of the events in East Germany in the autumn of 1989, he gently points up the stolidness of the news broadcasts of the time, which could only really convey a one-word message: 'joy'. Ophuls went back to the same people who had been 'vox popped' in the news clips and asked them-in his twinkling, ingratiating, goosey interview style-what they had made of it all in retrospect: putting the 'joy' through a spectrometer. Ophuls wants complicated answers to complicated, often booby-trapped questions. As in his previous documentary opus, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, the heroes of the piece are the 'little people', the villains, the self-mythologizers and selective memorizers. As an expert nailer of dissemblers, Ophuls plays his interviewees like a piano-tuner tweaks a piano-alternately probing and caressing to find whether the sounds ring true or not-so-true." -James Saynor, The Listener