Cow

Name: Cow
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 8, 2022
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 80

2022

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IFC Films | Release Date: April 8, 2022 | NR

Summary: This intimate portrait of one dairy cow’s life highlights the beauty and challenges cows face, and their great service to us all.

Director: Andrea Arnold

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: NR

Runtime: 93 min

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Mick LaSalle

Apr 4, 2022

It doesn’t make cows into human beings. If anything, for some 90 minutes, it turns us into a cow. In doing so, it shows us — in a way that we actually feel it — how amazing it is to exist. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Apr 7, 2022

What Arnold manages to make tangibly cinematic in Cow is the soulful spirituality of these animals, their beauty and their emotions. It is as moving as it is devastating, and although this film requires patience and fortitude, it rewards with a singular and perspective-shifting cinematic experience. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Apr 7, 2022

Cow never makes any case for veganism or any other cause. Rather, the film is a product of the increasing scrutiny of our destructive hierarchical categories, including the unnecessary cruelty of factory farming, the growth in the legal studies of animal rights, and scientific interest in animal consciousness. Read full review

Dave Calhoun

Jul 9, 2021

There’s nothing cloying or corny about the way Arnold depicts these beasts. What she gives us is a straightforward slice of a cow’s relentless life of muck, milk, breeding and feeding. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Jan 14, 2022

A near-wordless study of dairy cow Luma’s life and shot from a bovine-eye view, Cow resists the urge to anthropomorphise Luma while eliciting deep empathy for this non-human animal. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jul 12, 2021

There remains something unknowable about Luma, but while that proves a limitation, Cow also turns it into a strength. We wonder what’s she thinking, and then we put ourselves in her place — and realise it’s not a great place to be. Read full review

Richard Brody

Apr 11, 2022

Arnold, a major artist of cinematic fiction, has made characters’ self-presentation, their sense of performance in daily life, a crucial part of her most original drama, “American Honey.” In “Cow,” Arnold hasn’t considered her subjects or her place in their world as stringently or as originally. Read full review

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bertobellamy

Apr 8, 2022

Heartbreaking. I know what was coming in the end, so I closed my eyes. Couldn't watch it.

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BrownerMan

Aug 17, 2022

Cows are delicious. Brown cows don't make chocolate milk. Cows sleep comfortably.

Oh, the poor cows all penned up with no future boo hoo. Please. Animals have two rights: A front one and a back one. If you breathe through your mouth you might love this. When will the GRASSCows are delicious. Brown cows don't make chocolate milk. Cows sleep comfortably.

Oh, the poor cows all penned up with no future boo hoo.

Please.

Animals have two rights: A front one and a back one.

If you breathe through your mouth you might love this.

When will the GRASS documentary be made? The savagery with which it's treated held captive in tiny plots and frequently exposed to spinning blades mercilessly ending upward growth.

So you're a vegan? hypocrite. The intellectually honest option for eating is waiting for it to die naturally. Eat like a scavenger.

More steak for me, thanks… Expand

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