Synopse
Once again, Kelly Reichardt offers us her take on the Western and counterposes a sensitive story of male friendship with the mythology of violent settlement of the West. Oregon around 1820. Cookie, an unemployed cook, has joined a group of fur-trappers. Their coarsely brutal world is alien to shy Cookie and he is happy when he meets King-Lu – as a Chinese man also an outsider among outlaws, but a much cleverer businessman than Cookie. In a fort at the frontier, the pair build up a lucrative, if not risk-free business, at whose heart lies the first cow in Oregon.
Regie
With films like Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and Night Moves (2013) KELLY REICHARDT (*1963) is one of the most prolific makers of independent films in the USA. In 2016, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed her film Certain Women.
Info
Original Title: First Cow
International Title: First Cow
Category: Feature
Section: Transatlantik
Version & Subtitles: English OV with German subtitles
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Screenplay: Kelly Reichardt, Jon Raymond, based on the novel
Cast/Protagonists: John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Scott Shepherd, Gary Farmer, Lily Gladstone
Production country: United States
Year of Production: 2019
Length: 122 min
Producer: Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino
Production company: filmscience
Cinematography: Christopher Blauvelt
Sound: Leslie Shatz
Editor: Kelly Reichardt
Music: William Tyler
Production Design: Anthony Gasparro
Costume Design: April Napier
World Sales: Mac Simonson, A24
