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Rural Coming-Of-Age Tale ‘Holy Cow’ Poised To Travel The World After Charming Audiences In France
French Rural Coming-Of-Age Tale 'Holy Cow' Is This Week's Global Breakout
French director Louise Courvoisier’s feature directorial debut Holy Cow( Vingt Dieux) follows a teenager raised in a farming community in the Eastern department of Jura who embarks on a mission to make a prize-winning wheel of Comté cheese in the face of a series of hard knocks. Holy Cow was shot on location in the wooded, low mountain Jura region, where Courvoisier was raised by her Swiss father and German Canadian mother, classical musicians who decided to quit their careers specialized in Baroque music to set up a farm and be closer to nature. The amateur local cast is led by Clément Faveau in the role of 18-year-old protagonist Totone, whose carefree summer spent drinking at open-air discoes, chasing girls and getting into the occasional fight comes to an abrupt halt when his cheesemaker father suddenly dies.
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