First Cow (2019)
Country: US
Technical: col/1.37:1 122m
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner
Synopsis:
A cook and a Chinese immigrant in Oregon throw in their lot together, as the territory opens up slowly to civilisation. There they begin selling cakes made with milk filched from the local 'Factor's Jersey Cow, and look as though they might soon have enough to move south and start a hotel business, but a modern pre-credit forewarns us otherwise.
Review:
As with the director's earlier work, the pace is deathly slow, the season seems to be a perpetually dank autumn, and the logistics underlying the duo's movements and changes in fortune are obscure to say the least. Conversation is scant, and the friendship which is the motive of the entire narrative barely gets more than symbolic acknowledgement. As short on sustenance as one of Cookie's batter cakes, it perhaps conceals some subtext concerning the difficulty of succeeding in free enterprise without capital. In any event, it is just the kind of film the critics and festivals adore, and was garlanded with awards and nominations.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.37:1 122m
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner
Synopsis:
A cook and a Chinese immigrant in Oregon throw in their lot together, as the territory opens up slowly to civilisation. There they begin selling cakes made with milk filched from the local 'Factor's Jersey Cow, and look as though they might soon have enough to move south and start a hotel business, but a modern pre-credit forewarns us otherwise.
Review:
As with the director's earlier work, the pace is deathly slow, the season seems to be a perpetually dank autumn, and the logistics underlying the duo's movements and changes in fortune are obscure to say the least. Conversation is scant, and the friendship which is the motive of the entire narrative barely gets more than symbolic acknowledgement. As short on sustenance as one of Cookie's batter cakes, it perhaps conceals some subtext concerning the difficulty of succeeding in free enterprise without capital. In any event, it is just the kind of film the critics and festivals adore, and was garlanded with awards and nominations.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.37:1 122m
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner
Synopsis:
A cook and a Chinese immigrant in Oregon throw in their lot together, as the territory opens up slowly to civilisation. There they begin selling cakes made with milk filched from the local 'Factor's Jersey Cow, and look as though they might soon have enough to move south and start a hotel business, but a modern pre-credit forewarns us otherwise.
Review:
As with the director's earlier work, the pace is deathly slow, the season seems to be a perpetually dank autumn, and the logistics underlying the duo's movements and changes in fortune are obscure to say the least. Conversation is scant, and the friendship which is the motive of the entire narrative barely gets more than symbolic acknowledgement. As short on sustenance as one of Cookie's batter cakes, it perhaps conceals some subtext concerning the difficulty of succeeding in free enterprise without capital. In any event, it is just the kind of film the critics and festivals adore, and was garlanded with awards and nominations.