FirstCow follows two frontiersmen as they navigate the wild West with a business plan involving a cow and a crime—it may be Kelly Reichardt's masterpiece. Our 4.5 star review
When the two men meet up again in the saloon of a nearby trading post, Cookie has parted ways with his belligerent employers and Lu has turned a cabin in the woods into a home. The men live together, discussing their self-made-man daydreams. Maybe they’ll export beaver glands to China. Maybe they’ll open up a hotel or a bakery. “There’s no way for a poor man to start,” Lu says. “You need capital.” “Or leverage,” Cookie responds. “Or a crime,” Lu adds. Enter the cow.
It seems that the town bigwig, an effete Englishman named Chief Factor , has purchased a bovine family for his estate. The bull and the calf died along the journey up from San Francisco. The cow, however, now wanders in a meadow behind the rich man’s house. Cookie mentions that if they had some milk, he could make “oily cakes.” Soon, the two are sneaking out at night and liberating some lactose from the animal on the down low.
This isn’t the first time Reichardt has tracked two men wandering in the wilderness , nor is it the first time she’s looked to our nation’s unruly adolescence out West to examine our perpetually unstable present . Her characteristic emphasis on stillness and silence is here in spades; this is a movie that may stop to observe a barge float slowly down a river, or pause to watch patiently as a man fries balls of dough in burbling oil.
But there’s something about the delicacy and modesty of what Reichardt is doing here that feels unique, even as she’s transporting you back to a primordial, partially untapped U.S.A. The square Academy-ratio frame, previously used took the piss out of a genre’s grandeur inmakes you feel like you’re flipping through old-timey photographs. It also gives every scene these men share an incredible sense of intimacy, as if they’re living in their own private Oregon.
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