Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass

2009 · 101 min · EN · 6.7 (24 votes)
Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash · Starring John Ahern, Elaine Allestad, Lawrence Allestad, Pat Connolly, Billy Allestad, John Jankens
Documentary

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. This astonishingly beautiful reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

VIBE

A stark, beautiful, and unsentimental look at a dying way of life. It feels like watching the last breath of a wild place, where the grandeur of nature meets the quiet dignity of hard work. A truly immersive, almost spiritual experience.

contemplativewistfulausteremeditativeslow-burnobservational documentarycinematic natureminimalistnaturelabormasculinityendings
wildernesswoman director
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