Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKelly Reichardt’s “First Cow” is set as the opening movie of the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The event was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, before being revived online under the label MIFF 68 ½. The festival will unspool virtually Aug 6-23, 2020.“First Cow” is an unlikely story of friendship and free enterprise on the American frontier, involving a skilled cook, a Chinese immigrant and a wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow.
It previously played at the Telluride, New York and Berlin festivals.In total, the festival will present 60 feature films, including 3 in a retrospective section, and 44 shorts.
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