First Cow (2020)
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
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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…with a little more of the comedic energy (culminating in a lilting sadness) found in First Cow…
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But where First Cow and Showing Up offer sympathetic portraits of artists striving for personal expression despite adverse material conditions, Reichardt’s script here focuses on the (attempted) exploitation of others’ expression for material gain.
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Fans of “Pig” have name-dropped North Miami native Kelly Reichardt, whose films center around marginal figures in the Pacific Northwest, and indeed, parts of it suggest the movie “First Cow,” her masterful meditation on friendship and the birth of American capitalism, would have been if it had taken place in the present day.