Luma is very pretty. Courtesy of IFC
Please go see Cow: Maybe it’s because my ancestors were cow herders (my particular Keimig branch owned a cattle ranch in Kansas), but Andrea Arnold’s Cow moved me profoundly. In her singular observational style, Arnold filmed the days of a dairy cow called Luma on a farm in the United Kingdom. It is technically a documentary, but it’s done in a rather unconventional style. There is no narration, nor are the farmers who end up in frame of any interest—the director’s sole focus is immersing herself in the perspective of this sweet, gentle cow as she gets milked, frolics in grass, and licks