The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future review – gripping tale sprinkled with animal magic – The Guardian
First-time Chilean director Francisca Alegría turns up the arthouse dial previous eleven proper from the identify of her debut characteristic. The Cow Who Sang a Music into the Future is a conspicuously poetic title that provides each impression that we’re in for a hardcore cine-patience tester. I’ve to confess that it made my coronary heart sink. However whereas, sure, TCWSSF is a dreamy magical realist fable with an environmental message, Alegría weaves into her story an emotionally satisfying, gripping household drama, with singing cows – and fish too.
It begins with the fish, dying by the shoal-load on the banks of a river, poisoned by air pollution from a close-by manufacturing facility. Because the fish die, a girl gasps to the floor of the water. That is Magdalena (Mía Maestro), who drowned herself a long time in the past. Now she is again from the lifeless as if time stopped – nonetheless attractive, nonetheless dressed within the boilersuit she wore when she drove her motorcycle intentionally into the river. Magdalena’s husband collapses when he spots her outdoors a cell phone store. Their grownup daughter Cecilia (Leonor Varela) – only a woman when her mum died – drives from town together with her two youngsters to take care of him on the household’s dairy farm.
The movie is a mediation on harm and restore. The purpose, I feel, is that our resilience, just like the pure world round us, is fragile and interdependent. Within the river, when the fish die, the swans starve. Childhood trauma makes Cecilia chilly, unable to attach together with her personal youngsters – the eldest particularly, a transgender woman (fantastically performed by newcomer Enzo Ferrada Rosati). It’s a considerate movie, tender, hopeful, with some knockout bovine performances too. Although ultimately the cows don’t do any precise singing; they depart the soiled work to human stand-ins.
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