PBS Premiere: July 5, 2011
Synopsis
Sweetgrass presents a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its traditional ways of life dies out. Shot amidst the grandeur of Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, the film follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into the breathtaking and often dangerous mountains for summer pasture. Magnificently photographed and unsparingly candid, Sweetgrass discovers a world of harsh beauty and arduous labor, where humans still work in rugged intimacy with nature. An Official Selection of the 2010 New York Film Festival. (90 minutes)
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Film Information
Sweetgrass (90 min.)
Premiere Date: July 5, 2011
Streaming Dates: Expired
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Filmmakers: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor Bio | Interview | Statement
Press: Press Release | Critical Acclaim
Filmmakers
Sweetgrass... is a tribute to past and contemporary people who still manage to eke out a bittersweet living on the land.”
— Ilisa Barbash, Producer
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June 30, 2011
Critical Acclaim
Magnificent… Wonderful… The first essential movie of this young year… Astonishingly beautiful… Nature overwhelms the screen and even minds…...”
— Manohla Dargis,
The New York Times
Breathtaking… close to heaven… Fascinating...”
— Melissa Anderson,
The Village Voice
A one-of-a-kind experience. At once epic-scale and earthbound… a mad cross between Howard Hawks’ Red River and Grass…with a dash of Tex Avery’s Drag-along Droopy...”
— Ronnie Scheib,
Variety
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