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A 12-year-old girl being raised within a matriarchal household is taken through the right of passage of killing a deer for the first time. Expectations dissolve into chaos, and Florence finds herself alone, relying on instinct and training to follow through with her decisions, pull herself together, and face becoming an adult in the North American wilderness.

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    • Author: Cetnan
    It's well made and accomplishes telling its simple story effectively, I just think it could have been done in a lot less time without much being lost.
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    • Author: Zepavitta
    Cold November is a unique coming-of-age tale from the perspective of a young girl in a matrilineal family. Exploring activities usually portrayed by male characters in movies, it is a refreshing approach on themes without the familiar gender bias. It deftly blends hunting, familial rites of passage, and the biological maturity of becoming a woman. It functions as a tone poem, with a contemplative exploration, focusing on quiet moments, and it explores the internal struggles of coming into one's own place in a family and, in a greater sense, society.
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    • Author: Helldor
    I really enjoyed this bittersweet drama intermixing a child's coming of age, mourning, resiliency and imagination. There is something very satisfying about how this kid grows up and its a shame nowadays more lives don't develop this way.
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    • Author: Kata
    A young girl on the brink of womanhood goes on her first deer hunt, a family rite of passage. During the course of a few days, she and her close family deal with tragedy in their own way, and an acceptance of the responsibilities of entering adulthood gently align on this young woman's shoulders.

    A gentle, contemplative film, well worth your time.
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    • Author: Nto
    Don't watch it if you're an animal lover. Animal deers were shown harmed in this movie. I thought there would be relationship between the blood of animal she killed with her menstruation, but that wasn't the case
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    • Author: Bu
    Why make such a movie in the first place? Guess people have money to burn.
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    • Author: Unirtay
    A film which is a credit to the coming-of-age subgenre. A young girl approaching womanhood is eager to undergo the rite-of-passage of her first deer hunt as is the tradition in the matriarchy of her family. A quiet, meditative film that is oriented toward realistic, and agreeable human relationships and lets narrative conventions smoulder in its embers. Despite the relatively low interpersonal conflict it deals with mourning, resiliency and imagination, gender, nature, life and death, balanced against the challenges of taking personal responsibility and coping with change.
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    • Author: Framokay
    Well I thought I had seen some bad useless time wasting movies in my time .BUT this takes the title by a mile. What a waste of a humans time trying to put a reason of why this was even made . A girl gets her periods ,sits in a tree ,yells out and blows a whistle,and that was the action part .Oh feel sick cant continue ,,please spare your self from this diatribe
  • Credited cast:
    Bijou Abas Bijou Abas - Florence
    Karl Jacob Karl Jacob - Craig
    Anna Klemp Anna Klemp - Amanda
    Heidi Fellner Heidi Fellner - Mia
    Mary Kay Fortier-Spalding Mary Kay Fortier-Spalding - Georgia
    Alaina Lucy Rivera Alaina Lucy Rivera - Sweeney
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Raymond Brandstrom Raymond Brandstrom - Dwayne
    Tanner Cape Tanner Cape - Student
    Bill Cooper Bill Cooper - Mr. Bill
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