A cow, a cook, an immigrant.
With this absurd formula, the filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (
Wendy and Lucy
) brings the myth of the West and its wide open spaces into the most perfect sketch.
Noticed last year at Telluride and at the Berlinale, awarded at the American Film Festival of Deauville
First Cow
arrives on our screens via the MUBI platform.
It all started with the discovery, nowadays in an Oregon forest, of human bones by a walker and her dog.
Who do they belong to?
After this prologue, the film is teleported in 1820 to meet their owners: two very strange individuals whose life as pioneers is harsh.
Starving hut, overwhelming mud, fortune, comfort and material possessions are scarce.
That doesn't stop Cookie (John Magaro), a cook in the service of rustic trappers, from coming to the rescue and feeding King-Lu (Orion Lee), a Chinese sailor who hides naked like a worm in the thickets to escape very Russians
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