There’s Pillsbury, whose Doughboy is a cartoon character. There’s Betty Crocker ... And is still a household name today. Holy Cow! History is written by novelist, former TV journalist and diehard ...

Holy Cow is rooted in Jura, the rural eastern department where the director, a part-time farmer, grew up. Terroir plays as vital a role in Courvoisier’s drama as it does in the wines produced there.

The sunlit opening of French writer-director Louise Courvoisier’s punchy, sweet coming-of-age debut feature, “Holy Cow,” set in a cheese-making pocket of France’s Comté region ...

There’s Pillsbury, whose Doughboy is a cartoon character ... And still a household name today. Holy Cow! History is written by novelist, former TV journalist and diehard history buff J.