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Film round-up: April 10, 2025
The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
Maiwene Barthelemy and Clément Faveau in Holy Cow [IMDb]

Holy Cow (15)
Directed by Louise Courvoisier
★★★★

SHOT in France’s Jura region with non-professional actors, Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature is touching, elegiac and funny. A coming-of-age drama about friendship, integrity and post-industrial agriculture, it also reveals the agonies of making a wheel of Comté cheese.

A splendidly chaotic opening scene sets the tone. It features a cow sitting in a car, a man in a ragged vest lugging a beer barrel through a rural gala, and a drunken 18-year-old, Totone, performing a naked jig on a tabletop.  


One to One: John and Yoko (15)
Directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards
★★★


King of Kings (PG-13)
Directed by Seong-Ho Jang
★★


Panda Bear in Africa (6+)
Directed by Richard Claus and Karsten Kiilerich
★★

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