At filmcenter through 6/13: The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future Chilean director Francisca Alegria’s feature debut is an audacious, surrealistic expression of acute ecological distress & various ideas pertaining to contemporary agita. | ✍️ Kat Sachs
The film takes place in the south of Chile, where, in 2017, thousands of dead fish washed up along the shores of the Region of the Rivers.
Like a Greek chorus, an ensemble of these fish—first alive in the water, then dead on land—sing of a drowned woman coming back soaked with life, as they will one day, too. This woman is Magdalena , who emerges from the water dressed in a mechanic’s jumpsuit, her outfit and dirty hair reminiscent of Sandrine Bonnaire in Agnès Varda’s. Both are female characters whose motivations subvert societal expectations, their demises being the ultimate escape from such constraints.
Elsewhere, a young trans girl, Tomás , looks at newspaper clippings detailing her grandmother’s death by suicide; she’d tied her feet to the pedals of her motorcycle and rode it into the river. The woman is Magdalena. When she comes back to life , Magdalena’s widowed husband sees her walking around town and, as a result, has a shock for which he’s hospitalized. Their daughter, Cecilia , mother of Tomás, is a doctor who’s unhappy with her life and unaccepting of Tomás’s identity.
Her father runs a dairy farm with her stifled brother, a sensitive herdsman who’s accepting of Tomás and endeavors to take better care of the cows. Alongside Magdalena it’s the cows that speak most to Cecilia, even as both are technically wordless; as Alegria notes in her director’s statement for the film, cows are “the Great Mothers, who are forced into a system that separates them from their children.
The film’s greatest strengths are its magical realist elements, whose uncanniness helps to merge contemporary awareness with larger philosophical considerations of gender and the natural world. Alegria’s vision, from a script she cowrote with Manuela Infante and Fernanda Urrejola, is sensitively realized, though the sheer breadth of the ideas—everything from the ongoing risk of bee extinction to a young person’s identity—feels at times overwrought.
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