First Cow

Story

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.

Director

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.

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