Kelly Reichardt really knows how to milk drama out of the simplest scenarios.

“i’ve got you”

never thought i would be close to tears while listening to a cow being milked, but here we are. the american dream really is an endless circle

‪genuinely can’t get over how cookie and king lu in FIRST COW are like if you placed two animal crossing characters into red dead redemption ‬

The Revenant for sensitive boys who love to cook

first cow more like best cow

from the same studio that brought you climax, the lighthouse and hereditary, here's an endearing film about friendship and baking

naturalist tendercore perfection. the Magaro performance is not just sensitive but absorbing—here is a character who feels the texture of the world with such fullness, who in a moment of stillness seeks out wildflowers. Orion Lee is equal parts shrewd and tender. we know from the onset the price he will pay for a friend. the titular cow—don’t get me started. it’s tough to think of a movie that will stick with me more this year. my heart is so heavy!

interviewed John Magaro: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/03/06/john-magaro-first-cow-interview/

wrote about clafoutis: thetakeout.com/recipe-how-to-make-clafoutis-a-french-berry-dessert-t-1842074500?rev=1583684159769

the dumb ass cow was only in it for like 10 minutes omg kelly cowbaited us

Just an unstoppably lovely film, with two great lead perfs and the cutest cow I have ever seen. Reichardt seems to almost be showing off with her use of the 4:3 aspect ratio. Far from feeling boxed in, these images are towering and expansive. But more than just being a film about stereotypical Reichardt themes like friendship and nature and survival, it’s about how shitty it is that you need money to live and how that requirement infects the sublimity of your passions. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Because sometimes the world doesn’t give you the option.

cute date ideas: stealing milk from toby jones with your boyfriend (hes a baker)

Never mind the intriguing cross-references to McCabe and Mrs. Miller  & Dead Man. This sings its own tragicomic song, creates its own bittersweet space, recounts its own version of the same doomed history.