COW
Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of one dairy cow’s life.
SYNOPSIS
Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of one dairy cow’s life. The film highlights the beauty and challenges cows face, and their great service to us all. This film is an endeavor to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way but in a real way. It’s a film about one dairy cow’s reality and acknowledging her great service to us.
Director
Andrea Arnold
Run Time
1 hour, 38 minutes
Released
April 8, 2022
Distributed by
IFC Films
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Country
SUBTITLES
NOT RATED
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SHOWINGS
MAY 6 | FRI
4:55, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
MAY 7 | SAT
4:55, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
MAY 8 | SUN
12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
MAY 9 | MON
4:55, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
MAY 10 | TUE
4:55, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
MAY 11 | WED
4:55, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
MAY 12 | THU
4:55, 7:05, 9:10 p.m.
MAY 13 | FRI
4:55, 7:05, 9:15 p.m.
MAY 14 | SAT
12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 p.m.
MAY 15 | SUN
12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 p.m.
MAY 16 | MON
4:55, 7:05, 9:15 p.m.
MAY 17 | TUE
4:55, 7:05, 9:15 p.m.
MAY 18 | WED
4:55, 7:05, 9:15 p.m.
MAY 19 | THU
4:55, 7:05, 9:15 p.m.
Reviews
“Cow doesn’t interrogate the motives behind that process – leave that to “Fast Food Nation” and its ilk – but it does a fine job of generating empathy from one scene to the next and using that power to craft a hypnotic spell rife with significance.
“A filmmaker infectiously attuned to movement, Arnold finds a horrible, hypnotic rhythm in these gruelingly looped procedures, though she doesn’t shoot them with any surplus beauty.”
“Alongside her observant cinematographer Magda Kowalczyk, Arnold applies that same alert and non-didactic spirit to “Cow” as she follows Luma, a dairy cow who provides a great service to humankind by selflessly giving her milk away.”