
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 north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungr... (Full plot summary below)
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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 north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometres through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.
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| About.comJennifer MerinSweetgrass is a film of record about the American West. It documents, pays tribute to a fast-fading way of life. You want 'True Grit?' This is it! |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonA documentary of uncommon elegance and abstract expression... What always impresses about the movie is its here-and-nowness. |
| Projection BoothRob HumanickSuggests the opening chapter of 2001 by way of Au Hasard Balthazar. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongAn intoxicating audiovisual experience and a sprawling story that encompasses nothing less than the seasons, birth and death. |
| Toronto StarJason AndersonIf there's anything we can learn from the creatures here, it's that any day in which you don't get stripped of your coat or eaten by a bear is probably a good one. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)I liked it for 15 minutes or so, and then I found it intolerable. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrA meditative and intensely beautiful documentary. |
| Boston PhoenixPeter KeoughCall me old-fashioned, but I find the spectacle of hundreds of sheep descending a mountainside like the conquistadors at the beginning of Werner Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God more impressive than all the vistas of Avatar's Pandora. |
| Seattle TimesTed FryIn an extraordinary series of tableaux that are alternately idyllic and severe, Sweetgrass defies the conventions of what most of us regard as a documentary film. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonSelf-flagellation never felt as good as filmmakers head to the high country for the last experience of the good old days. |