Director: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
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.
Reviews
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Reverse Shot
Farihah Zaman
Farihah Zaman
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
documentaries.about.com
Jennifer Merin
Jennifer Merin
Slant Magazine
Glenn Heath Jr.
Glenn Heath Jr.
Row Three
Andrew James
Andrew James
The Boston Phoenix
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
ReelTalk
Donald Levit
Donald Levit
Slate
Dana Stevens
Dana Stevens
The Stranger
Brendan Kiley
Brendan Kiley
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson
Phil on Film
Philip Concannon
Philip Concannon
The Observer
Philip French
Philip French