First Cow (2020)
A loner and cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds connection with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee). The men collaborate on a business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner's prized milking cow. (A24)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Directed By: Kelly Reichardt
Written By: Kelly Reichardt, Jonathan Raymond
Starring: Ewen Bremner, Gary Farmer, Dylan Smith, Rene Auberjonois, Toby Jones, Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Scott Shepherd, John Keating, Orion Lee, Lily Gladstone, Jared Kasowski
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First Cow belongs to 12 collections
1. Female Directors (public: moderated by djross - 83 stars)
2. A24 (public: moderated by elhenzo - 12 stars)
3. New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film (public: moderated by CCLZA - 3 stars)
4. 43rd Portland International Film Festival (2020) ☐ (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2)
5. Best by different standards (private: sesito71 - 3 stars)
6. best of the year (private: ehk2 - 1 star)
7. seen in 2020 (private: sproost)
8. 2020s Films (private: Maaxwell)
9. Dämon 2020 (private: caffe)
10. The AV Club's 25 Best Films of 2020 (private: TychoCelchuu)
11. 2020 Films Seen (private: seals)
12. Cahiers du Cinéma - 70 films -70 ans (private: Thegoodboy)
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western, kaçak, ikili, inek, süt, kurabiye, hırsızlık SPOILER Ruslardan kaçan bir Çinli ile, bulunduğu kafile ile arası iyi olmayan bir Amerikalı Oregon'da karşılaşırlar. Bölgeye yeni gelen tahsildara ait ineği geceleri sağarak sütünden kurabiye yaparlar. Nihayetinde iş fark edilir. Aile Filmi, Sadece iki kötü konuşma var. Çocuklarla izledim. Kitaptan uyarlama.
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efervesanfil | 74 29% |
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jagarnyfiken | 82 86% |
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| Jul 09 | Ashitek | 86 90% |
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| Jul 09 | ermiaroshan | 83 36% |
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| Jul 09 |  |
AnnieHall | 90 75% |
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A peaceful, slow and naturalistic movie, costumes, cinematography, etc. are all effective. Reichardt takes us back to the same theme as we are used to from her previous films. Our story, which begins with a beautiful William Blake quote, gives us peace of mind as the friendship of 2 people we aren't used well know. I think first half slighlty overrated, second half much better ; ending scene was very good. I'm a super-slow guy and liked it. "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
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nmroshan | 86 82% |
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| Jun 25 | dracular | 65 77% |
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| Jun 24 | Hamid.b75 | 70 45% |
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| Jun 09 |  |
Neonman | 73 45% |
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I loved the first half or so, as the music and editing was fantastic and absolutely transportive. It loses steam as it realises it's a slight work about friendship, something you don't quite get a grasp of -- but it's still fun to watch these guys secretly milk a cow that they shouldn't be. Don't watch on an empty stomach.
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| Jun 04 |  |
donkeyjelly | 82 78% |
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delgado | 90 93% |
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tardini | 80 94% |
| May 29 |  |
glumpy_99 | 58 14% |
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A typically pensive and low-key effort from Reichardt (with echoes of MCCABE & MRS MILLER), made almost unwatchable by her insistence on propping the camera in one spot for each scene – an interesting idea at first, as it allows the eye to wander freely over the action, but ultimately becomes a claustrophobic distraction (the boxy aspect ratio doesn’t help). Generally fine performances somewhat compensate (Magaro and Lee are perfect), but the stylistic choices leave a bit to be desired.
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| May 28 | crtsjffrsn | 40 23% |
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Nature warming but slightly overrated cinematography. I mean, it's nice to look at, but it's not nice enough to actually carry the picture. The characters are more interesting, but the story doesn't take advantage of that as much. Instead it turns into the standard slow and aimless approach that so popularly kills movies these days.
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| May 04 |  |
apsays | 67 62% |
| May 01 | kb0799 | 85 88% |
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sepid | 85 67% |
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twincinema | 90 92% |
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We need more Westerns like this one. This film lulls you in with its beautiful sceneries, then keeps you engaged with its tender look at humanity.
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kangadoodoo | 60 53% |
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ÖzcanEfe | 71 60% |
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Jake_R | 86 86% |
| Feb 13 |  |
deaddilly | 70 51% |
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Ironically, that poster looks like some millennial Capitalist "Got milk?" advertisement. I liked the movie, especially the period detail and warmth of the shots. A simple but elegantly told story. Not sure if it was my TV but the night-time shots were very dark and hard to make out what was going on.
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| Feb 11 | kevinwriter | 80 69% |
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firdeva | 75 50% |
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This and The Cow (1969) are the best cow movies I've seen.
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halmic94 | 80 80% |
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It's not rare that I disagree with the cinema-going public, but seldomly do I not get at all what they see in a film. The story is super simplistic, the cinematography is uninspired and despite the attention to detail, everything appears staged - in no small part due to the terrible acting (the first selling of cookies is straight out of a high school play). The criticism of capitalism is blatantly superficial and suggests she either does not understand it or willingly oversimplifies it.
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| Jan 08 |  |
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| Jan 08 | cembo | 83 65% |
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| Jan 07 |  |
joel-w-m | 85 91% |
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Anyone else tear up a bit at the banjo-backed scene of Cookie’s first glimpse of the cow through the trees? It’s that kind of film: so delicate and thoughtful in its cinematography, score, and edit that every detail of its earthy (pacific north)western setting and uniquely organic central relationship is infused with a powerful, patient beauty-except of course when both are threatened by cold colonialism. In hindsight, the prologue provides the perfect bittersweet commentary on this dynamic.
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| Jan 06 | ErlendA | 73 47% |
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Corbad | 85 90% |
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A soft-spoken homosexual walks through the PNW harvesting mushrooms before setting up a baking business in a nasty little town with his entrepreneurial partner. A beautifully shot, patient, precisely told little Western. Any synopsis will undersell this: despite the lack of up front drama, the tale is all in the subtleties and atmosphere, and is engagingly told.
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| Jan 05 | CesarCastag (CinePlayers.com) | 100 94% |
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É com esse processo de pensar a criação do país a partir de parâmetros de formação pictórica que First Cow se envolve. Cores, tecidos, padrões visuais e enquadramentos definem o modo como a natureza estadunidense e os meios de habitação aparecem no filme. E é neste ponto preciso que First Cow desdobra sua compreensão do envolvimento estético-político que descreve os métodos e movimentos da colonização. [Full Review]
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Likable but interminable, really coulda cut a decent chunk off of this without losing too much.
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Kelly Reichardt, as per her usual, is just a master of small stories. Every character seems fleshed out and to have lived a life that is completely believable. This is literally about two friends selling some oily cakes and it couldn't be more enjoyable. That is her talent.
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The script is so subtle but powerful in giving a good take on the agents of industry. Everyone need to believe one day they will get a share of what society provides vulgarly and without justice.
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fabiovisnadi | 84 58% |
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faruksongur | 7 52% |
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bof | 85 92% |
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Cowpitalism is theft. Sorrynotsorry. In the admittedly rather narrow subgenre "Alia Shawkat finds a dead body", this is right up there with Green Room; a slow meditation on just how so-called civilization is established - both in terms of ownership, and in terms of how we relate to each other.
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roozbeh_13 | 85 87% |
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mert ha. | 68 31% |
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norval_jones | 83 82% |
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schnofel | 81 91% |
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A lovely remembrance of the old west, of the hard lives of gentle souls, of that cow going downriver on a raft. It's just so well-rounded. The slowness blooms into atmosphere and worldbuilding - one has to appreciate the salamander being turned over to get to the taste of London in the cookies. Reichardt even answers the question she poses at the beginning in that classic short story sense: "Why are there two skeletons holding hands?" And well, it's the mysteries of love and capitalism.
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| Dec 17, 2020 | TastelessSod | 73 36% |
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lessismore | 70 35% |
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Moribunny | 58 48% |
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If you're patient, you'll be rewarded with a half-decent second half, but the first hour is boring AF. And I think Kelly Reichardt can do better.
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tipieserozge | 65 65% |
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A slow, simple and quiet film, "First Cow" would have been a lot better if it was more entertaining and a lot less boring. The film has potential and good ideas but really fails to make it worth getting through. Unpredictable, well acted but mostly disappointing, "First Cow" I think could have been more exciting and more worth my time. It's a slow movie at the start and a difficult movie to finish. I thought "First Cow" was going to be a lot better and in the end a lot more rewarding .
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| Nov 14, 2020 |  |
jakartan | 73 84% |
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inmate | 76 46% |
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HobbesZ | 65 38% |
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JLFM | 76 68% |
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Really lovely little yarn that managed to hit a couple of my personal sweet-spots (male friendship, the emotional connections we have with food) with the gorgeous backdrop of Oregon forestry (if Oregon is indeed where this was filmed; I can't find confirmation on that). I would have loved to have seen this on the big screen.
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| Nov 11, 2020 |  |
amerigo | 67 16% |
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You know those historical villages with volunteer actors doing reenactments? This film is what would happen if they decided to make a movie by consensus. So you get 10min of foraging, 10min of fishing, 10min of cleaning--it's unbearably tedious. There is almost no plot. The characters are weirdly lifeless and wholesomely cheesy. The cinematography somehow makes the natural beauty of Oregon seem like a 90s home movie with among the worst sound production I've witnessed in a professional film.
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| Nov 11, 2020 |  |
TraverseTown | 70 67% |
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marco_n65 | 82 91% |
| Oct 30, 2020 |  |
Icarus | 92 92% |
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Many will focus on the social implications of this film, particularly its interaction with capitalism. It's well done, to be sure, but for me, this film does something even more rare and important: it gives us a portrait of male friendship that is downright revelatory as it highlights companionship and mutual service in the hopes of attaining their common goals.
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| Oct 29, 2020 | tcclemson | 8 85% |
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| Oct 11, 2020 | Kianoto | 45 6% |
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| Oct 09, 2020 |  |
sdiama | 1 1% |
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The first 2 minutes a ship goes by, then 1 minute watching a dog, then for 2 minutes, a kid digging in the dirt, just to go back in another ship for 1 minute and back again to the dog for 1 minute. After 7 minutes of minutes, I stopped watching. This is not a movie, is a bad video from vacations for youtube :(
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| Oct 08, 2020 |  |
amita | 76 75% |
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Mr.Cinema | 60 36% |
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edw | 92 85% |
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In the spirit of Van Sant, or Malick at his best, in the sense that minimal dialog and great cinematography speak louder than words, Reichardt has created a delightful film about two unlikely friends in an era we don't see on screen too often. It's quiet and slow, unquestionably, but also quite peaceful. If you have the two hours to completely immerse yourself in this film, it won't be a problem. While the plot is critical, it's the attention to detail that truly makes this film worth watching.
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| Oct 06, 2020 |  |
alexlma | 9 90% |
| Oct 04, 2020 | belgamo | 80 66% |
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