Sweetgrass

Name: Sweetgrass
Genre: Adventure, Western, Documentary
Released: January 6, 2010
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 80

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: January 6, 2010 | Unrated

Summary: In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme northwest of the United States. It was a journey of almost 300 kilometers through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges. The aging shepherds do their very bestIn the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme northwest of the United States. It was a journey of almost 300 kilometers through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together while the high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.… Expand

Director: Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Genre(s): Adventure, Western, Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 101 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

Jul 9, 2013

Sweetgrass memorably captures a dying way of American life, a marvelously untrammeled American landscape and at least two animals — men and sheep — that despite their millennia-long domestic relationship still have a spark of wildness in them. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Jul 9, 2013

Though Sweetgrass has moments of great beauty, the film is never nostalgic or idealizing about its human or ovine subjects. It shows the relationship of human and domesticated animal—and the relationship of both to nature—as a productive and symbiotic yet often brutal struggle. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Jul 9, 2013

Sweetgrass offers a one-of-a-kind experience. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Jul 9, 2013

Sweetgrass is austere enough to make Frederick Wiseman's films look like Jersey Shore episodes, yet it has its own suspense. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jul 9, 2013

Sweetgrass achieves a borderline abstract splendor that's furthered by the directors' avoidance of delving deeply into its human subjects, whose backstories and general circumstances are only alluded to through fly-on-wall scraps. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Jul 9, 2013

The film is less about people or this specific herding ritual than about the majesty of the landscape and the interplay between these animals, their keepers, and the dictates of nature itself. Read full review

The Telegraph Sukhdev Sandhu

Jul 9, 2013

It’s a powerful testimonial to a fading way of life. Read full review

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