First Cow

Kelly Reichardt
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US
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2019
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DCP
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colour
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122'

"Set in the mid-19th-century Oregon Territory, Kelly Reichardt's latest film is a fable, a western, a buddy picture and a masterpiece. (...) First Cow crystallizes Reichardt's ideas about history and politics - about how the simplest undertakings ensnare people in complicated relations of power and competition. It is fundamentally a western: it takes up questions of civilization, solidarity and barbarism on the American frontier. And like many great westerns it critiques some of the genre's foundational myths with bracing, beautiful rigor, including the myth of heroic individualism." - The New York Times