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First Cow (2020)
7.1
96%Runtime122 min
Rating12A
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In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.
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First Cow (2020) is a critically acclaimed drama set in the American West, with a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.1/10 on IMDb. The film has been praised for its thoughtful exploration of friendship, capitalism, and the early American frontier, though it has not received any major awards recognition so far.
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Kelly Reichardt's slow-burning period piece about the unlikely friendship between two men in 19th-century Oregon has a measured pace and attention to detail that recall the humanistic approach of Rossellini's neorealist classics.
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First Cow is a 2019 American drama film directed by Kelly Reichardt and co-written with Jonathan Raymond, based on Raymond's 2004 novel The Half-Life. Set in 1820s Oregon Country, it follows a traveling cook and a Chinese immigrant who start an illicit business using milk stolen from a wealthy trader's cow. The film stars John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner, Lily Gladstone, and René Auberjonois in one of his final roles.
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