A unique nonfiction film chronicling the life of an ordinary bovine tops the DVD releases for the week of Aug. 2.
"Cow": This verite-style wordless documentary from filmmaker Andrea Arnold is a carefully considered contemplation of the day-to-day existence of Luma, an English dairy cow.
"The life of a dairy cow in 'Cow' is an endless parade of intrusions on what we might consider the natural order," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "Luma’s a working mother, only allowed a nuzzle or two with her baby before the babe is given a rubber udder attached to a pail and mom is back to be milked or mated with."
