Sweetgrass

Documentary

2009, Movie, 1h 41min

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Country: United States

Directors:

Lucien Castaing-Taylor,

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6.8

Critic rating

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7.5

Reviews

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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This beautiful and hypnotic documentary shows the agony and the ecstasy of herding sheep...

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Kimberley Jones

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...an ethnographic freeze-frame of a way of life now lost.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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In the rugged Absaroka-Beartooth mountains of Montana, a group of modern-day cowboys embark on a perilous journey, leading their flocks of sheep through breathtaking landscapes and dangerous terrain. This unsentimental elegy to the American West reveals a world where nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are intimately intertwined.

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Sweetgrass was released in theaters on February 4, 2009.

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