Cow

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Cow

2022

1h 33m

Documentary

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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.

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A stark and emotionally resonant look at the life of a farm animal, Cow simply yet insistently asks the viewer to reconsider their relationship with their food.

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Jessica Kiang

Sight & Sound

May 14

Luma the cow stars in Andrea Arnold’s passionate and confrontatively immersive dairy industry documentary.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

09/19/2024

4/5

The result is heartwrenching.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

Metro Newspaper (UK)

12/27/2022

The British auteur Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) turns to documentary with this powerful, cow’s eye view of the dairy industry. You may never look a pint of milk in the face again.

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William Stottor

Loud and Clear Reviews

07/18/2024

4/5

In her first documentary feature Cow, Andrea Arnold concocts a deeply profound and strikingly resonant film about a mother’s forced separation from her child.

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Savina Petkova

A Good Movie To Watch

10/29/2023

8/10

Cow opens up the dialogue about the on-screen role of animals beyond the call for activism. In it, the protagonists dictate the camera movements and positions just as any other human subject would.

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Greg Carlson

Vague Visages

05/09/2023

Arnold’s assembly stops short of making any condemnation of the human masters who guide Luma through her paces, but Cow surely raises age-old questions about the relationship between people and “their” animals.

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sofie m

@RT42473051 11/03/2024

The ending was heartbreaking. The entire film was incredibly well done and will forever change the way I consume dairy products. No words, just moos and the unfortunate truth about the dairy industry.

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Donnation G

@DMG35 02/26/2024

A film that will test you. It shows the miserable life of a Cow on a dairy farm, which is a life that is short, painful, and full of sorrow. The film is not an easy watch and it isn't supposed to be. The filmmaker set out to show what these lovely animals go through just so we can have their milk. It's ugly, very sad, and it will stick with you.

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Alec B

@Alec97 02/21/2024

The lack of any talking heads or voice over narration is the biggest plus here as it makes the ending all the more shocking.

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07/02/2022

Devastating! Humans have so much to answer for

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Zachary L

@Zach156 05/22/2022

Incredible film about a cow.

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05/17/2022

Holy shit this movie was so good. There's no narrative whatsoever - it's pure, objective reality and that reality is bleak af.

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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.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Producer: Kat Mansoor
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Doco Digital, Halcyon Pictures, Doc Society, BBC Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 8, 2022, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $22.2K
Runtime: 1h 33m

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