Cow review: The British auteur's first nonfiction feature may be a departure in many respects, but her distinctively harsh lyricism is still present
’s tough, full-immersion documentary on the life cycle of a bovine servant. In the first, we watch in challenging close-up as a calf, glazed in gelatinous afterbirth, emerges feet first from the womb of her mother, a veteran dairy cow named Luma who has been through this ordeal many times before.
Like “Gunda,” “Cow” eschews narration for observation. The only direct human voices we hear in the film, offering occasional coaxing and encouraging commands, belong to nameless workers on an industrial British dairy farm, and they are largely swamped by the clanking of metal grates, the screech of machinery and the low, plaintive protests of the cows.
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. Working without her regular collaborator Robbie Ryan, she calls on DP Magda Kowalczyk to shoot Luma’s routine in harshly handheld fashion, lit as drably and unsympathetically as you’d expect from this environment.
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