FirstCow is a uniquely Reichardtian take on the American Western
, her latest, is a uniquely Reichardtian take on the American Western. Based on Jonathan Raymond’s 2005 book, the film is set in the Oregon Territory in the 1820s and follows two outsiders, the orphan cook Cookie and Chinese immigrant King Lu , who strike up an unlikely friendship centered on a scheme: building a baking business with the help of some stolen milk from the first cow in the territory.
Well, it started with my own dog Lucy. Like so many things in my filmmaking, it was purely for practical reasons. I shot smaller stories because I didn’t have the budget, and I still don’t have the budget, for bigger ones. Lucy was in my movies because she just couldn’t be left alone without destroying everything. So she got written into the script., I realized what a great directing technique it was to put an untrained animal together with actors in a scene.
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