Cows in the cinema, Cow arrives in Cannes

(ANSA) - ROME, June 20 - There is a cow, or rather there are two, around the cinema. There is great anticipation for COW, the documentary by English director Andrea Arnold that revolves around the life of two cows, selected at the Cannes 2021 festival (6-17 July) in the new section of Cannes Premiere for filmmakers fond of the festival (she is in the fifth step). And by a curious chance, fresh from the Berlin 2020 festival, from Locarno and from the New York Film Festival where he won the Critics Awards 2020, he arrives more or less on the same dates, in the virtual room of Mubi 'FIRST COW' by the American Kelly Reichardt from 9 July. Here too at the center of the story is a cow and the precious milk to make irresistible pancakes. Arnold's Cow (American Honey, Fish Tank and president of thisyear of the Un Certain Regard competition) is an attempt to 'consider' cows, to get closer to these magnificent mammals not in a romantic way but in a real way. "It is a film about the reality of a dairy cow, recognition of her great service to us. When I look at Luma, our cow, I see the whole world in her," said the director who worked for six years on the film. was pre-sold worldwide by Mk2 Films. It is the precious debut on the MUBI platform which selects auteur and high quality cinema as if it were a contemporary art house cinema and which in a very short time has established itself as a real community of cinephiles, more than 10 million in the world, First Cow returning from international laurels. Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby is also coming,Songs My Brothers Taught Me by Chloé Zhao, Ekwa Msangi's Farewell Amor, award-winning Sundance, Danielle Lessovitz's Port Authority and Rachel Lang's Our Men. First Cow is an anomalous western, a story of male friendship set in the Old West , in the territory of Oregon in the 1820s. A solitary and taciturn cook (John Magaro) traveling west joins a group of Oregon fur trappers, but the only person he feels a real affinity with is a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee), who is also looking for him. of luck. Soon the two discover how to make their "American dream" come true: stealing a wealthy landowner (Toby Jones) of the milk of his precious cow, the first and only one in the area, to make delicious pancakes to sell at the market.The result is a portrait of frontier life in the early nineteenth century, that rural America upon which the country was built. It is Reichardt's seventh film, the fifth set in the Pacific Northwest, and has melancholy in common with the previous ones. "The Bird has the nest, the spider the web, the man the friendship" reads at the end of the opening credits of First Cow. The same quote (attributed to the poet William Blake) opens The Half Life, the 2004 novel by Jonathan Raymond from which the film is based. The idea of ​​friendship as a natural phenomenon - the place in the mind where human beings build their home - finds with the story of Cookie and King-Lu the expression of loyalty and devotion that is the red thread of his cinema. (early nineteenth century, that rural America on which the country was built. It is Reichardt's seventh film, the fifth set in the Pacific Northwest, and has melancholy in common with the previous ones. "The Bird has the nest, the spider the web, the man the friendship" reads at the end of the opening credits of First Cow. The same quote (attributed to the poet William Blake) opens The Half Life, the 2004 novel by Jonathan Raymond from which the film is based. The idea of ​​friendship as a natural phenomenon - the place in the mind where human beings build their home - finds with the story of Cookie and King-Lu the expression of loyalty and devotion that is the red thread of his cinema. (early nineteenth century, that rural America on which the country was built. It is Reichardt's seventh film, the fifth set in the Pacific Northwest, and has melancholy in common with the previous ones. "The Bird has the nest, the spider the web, the man the friendship" reads at the end of the opening credits of First Cow. The same quote (attributed to the poet William Blake) opens The Half Life, the 2004 novel by Jonathan Raymond from which the film is based. The idea of ​​friendship as a natural phenomenon - the place in the mind where human beings build their home - finds with the story of Cookie and King-Lu the expression of loyalty and devotion that is the red thread of his cinema. (the fifth set in the Pacific Northwest, and has melancholy in common with the previous ones. "The Bird has the nest, the spider the web, the man the friendship" reads at the end of the opening credits of First Cow. The same quote (attributed to the poet William Blake) opens The Half Life, the 2004 novel by Jonathan Raymond from which the film is based. The idea of ​​friendship as a natural phenomenon - the place in the mind where human beings build their home - finds with the story of Cookie and King-Lu the expression of loyalty and devotion that is the red thread of his cinema. (the fifth set in the Pacific Northwest, and has melancholy in common with the previous ones. "The Bird has the nest, the spider the web, the man the friendship" reads at the end of the opening credits of First Cow. The same quote (attributed to the poet William Blake) opens The Half Life, the 2004 novel by Jonathan Raymond from which the film is based. The idea of ​​friendship as a natural phenomenon - the place in the mind where human beings build their home - finds with the story of Cookie and King-Lu the expression of loyalty and devotion that is the red thread of his cinema. (The same quote (attributed to the poet William Blake) opens The Half Life, the 2004 novel by Jonathan Raymond from which the film is based. The idea of ​​friendship as a natural phenomenon - the place in the mind where human beings build their home - finds with the story of Cookie and King-Lu the expression of loyalty and devotion that is the red thread of his cinema. (The same quote (attributed to the poet William Blake) opens The Half Life, the 2004 novel by Jonathan Raymond from which the film is based. The idea of ​​friendship as a natural phenomenon - the place in the mind where human beings build their home - finds with the story of Cookie and King-Lu the expression of loyalty and devotion that is the red thread of his cinema. (