A marvelously eerie experience, evoking the tradition of horror-noir maestro Val Lewton, Chilean effort “The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future” begins with a woman (charismatic Mia Maestro, “The ...

Scores of moribund fish constitute a mournful choir in the opening sequence of the eerie environmentalist fable “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future.” Gasping for air ashore a poisoned river, they ...

Hundreds of fish lie dead on a riverbed. A lone (lonely?) cow ambles around late at night in a forest. A flock of birds fly in discordant unison up above. The arresting images of nature gone awry in ...

A woman who comes back to life in a river full of dying fish paves the way for a moving and magical tale of environmentalism. “The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future” uses magical realism to blend ...

This lyrical debut feature from Francisca Alegría is a slow-burning parable about our relationship to each other and to the living world. By Brandon Yu When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

"There will always be things we can't explain." Kino Lorber has unveiled an official US trailer for a Chilean film with the exquisite title The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future. What a name for a ...

The family Magdalena left behind are meanwhile riven. Daughter Cecilia (Leonor Varela, pictured below) is a surgeon in the city, raising her own young daughter Alma (Laura Del Rio) and teenage Tomás ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Five years after her lauded short “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye” won Sundance’s short film jury award in international fiction, Chile’s Francisca Alegria is bowing her feature debut on ...