November

Movie Ranked #630 | 2018 - Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her."November" is based on Estonian novel "Rehepapp" by Andrus Kivirähk, a bestseller of the last twenty years. The film is a mixture of magic, black humor and romantic love. The story is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam. The villagers' main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and from spirits ... More from IMDb
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Best two reviews:
1) Christian Science Monitor - An ingeniously scripted psychological thriller. (Rating: 100) Read Full Review >
2) Chicago Sun-Times - Courteney Cox, well known from TV, rarely gets an opportunity to revise her famous image, but here she is serious, inward, coiled. She carries the film; the other characters circulate through her consciousness as possibilities and hypotheses. (Rating: 75) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
24) Miami Herald - Cox's morose performance could not be less interesting, Harrison's visual stylings all feel borrowed from David Fincher movies and nine inch nails music videos, and the film's elliptical mysteries, which twist onto themselves a la Mulholland Drive, aren't interesting enough to ponder. (Rating: 25) Read Full Review >
25) Baltimore Sun - Brand's script is a puzzle without a satisfying solution. Even at its supposedly heartfelt conclusion, it's more ironic than emotional, more of an art thing than a suspense movie. (Rating: 12) Read Full Review >
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