First Cow

[Opens July 10 for purchase on Premium VOD.] Kelly Reichardt's visually impressive, original, unusual, well-acted, poignant, down-to-Earth, comedic, unpredictable, star-studded (Alia Shawkat, René Auberjonois, Scott Shepherd, Gary Farmer, Lily Gladstone, Ted Rooney, and Dylan Smith), 122-minute, 2019 film based on Jonathan Raymond's novel Half Life and highlighted by wonderful sets in which a talented cook and baker (John Magaro) traveling with fur trappers in the Oregon Territory in the 1820s develops a friendship with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) on the run from Russians he meets in the woods and together they start a profitable but precarious business in a ramshackle town selling delicious fried pastries to hungry townsfolk, but to make their prized dough they must steal milk from a cow that belongs to a wealthy aristocrat (Toby Jones) in the middle of the night in secret.
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