By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francisca Alegria
Starring: Benjamin Soto | Enzo Ferrada Rosati | Frederique Gudelj | Leonor Varela | Mia Maestro
Original language title: La vaca que cantó una canción hacia el futuro
Year: 2023
Running time: 98
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10360808/reference/
Michael says: “This debut feature from Chile is a magical realist fable that tackles a lot of issues with a cryptic story that’s pretty indecipherable, but it’s beautiful to look at and sounds great, and the themes around rebirth, environment and female power resonate pretty strongly with me. In fact it seems pretty deliberate that filmmaker Francisca Alegria uses cows and bees as the featured animal characters in this film alongside a grandmother long dead who returns to life, a mother who is a doctor, and a daughter who is trans, that they are all women enmeshed in the environs of our beleaguered heroine, Mother Nature. 4 cats“