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First Cow

Toby Jones
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Overview

Director/co-writer Kelly Reichardt's American frontier drama is an adaptation of Jonathan Raymond's 2004 novel "The Half-Life." Starring John Magaro, Orion Lee, and Rene Auberjonois, it revolves around an unlikely friendship between a hired cook and a mysterious Chinese man in the 1820s Oregon Territory. The two of them develop a lucrative enterprise that revolves around the first cow in the territory.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Kelly Reichardt - Director
Toby Jones

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray (With DVD, 2 Pack, AC-3, Widescreen, Digital Theater System)
  • Run Time: 121
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 031398317852
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
  • Release Date: September 2020

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
"[The] dense green environment is captured with understated beauty and stillness in the images of Reichardt's regular cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, working in the intimate 4:3 aspect ratio used in the silent era." - 08/30/2019 Hollywood Reporter


"[A] loose yet engaging adaptation of Pacific Northwest chronicler..." - 08/30/2020 Variety


4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] frontier story which captures the harsh realities and simple pleasures of a life built painstakingly from rock, wood, and soil..." - 03/06/2020 RogerEbert.com


"The results play more like one of Reichardt’s short-story adaptations, vivid and precise. Shooting close to the ground, she attunes us to a quiet and less hurried way of life." - 03/04/2020 A.V. Club


"[A] deceptively simple and wondrously subtle new film." - 03/03/2020 New York Times


"[A] work of remarkable beauty and startling complexity.” - 03/03/2020 Film Comment


"There are echoes of Robert Altman in this tall tale of America’s two selves, one rapacious and the other with arms wide open." - 12/18/2020 Boston Globe


"[A] very intimate examination of friendship that feels both oppressively minute and, at moments, downright sweeping, taking in the landscape of a brave new world while interrogating its cruel, false promises." - 12/10/2020 The Atlantic


"[I]t’s couched in an always playful anti-macho mood of laconic going-with-the-flow, while subverting the clichés of westerns. Its use of detail the paraphernalia of pioneer existence -- is exquisite." - 12/11/2020 Sight and Sound


"[T]his one obeys its own rhythms and rhymes, treating viewers not just to an engaging yarn, but to something more contemplative and poetic." - 12/08/2020 Washington Post


"This is John Magaro’s show, turning in a superbly modulated turn as a gentle sad-sack with a gift." - 05/27/2021 Empire


"[It's] couched in an always playful anti-macho mood of laconic going-with-the-flow while subverting the cliches of westerns." - 12/03/2021 Sight and Sound

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