Patience and Perspective: The Gentle Editing of 'First Cow' Here's a video essay that breaks down why the genre-defying softness of 'First Cow' permeates its edit. A24 Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay about the gentle editing of Kelly Reichardt‘s First Cow. When I hear the phrase “movies by women are so much… softer,” something inside me breaks. My mind starts to race with any number of unabashedly brutal female-directed films: Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day, Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s