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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 41 m

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 bes...

Directed By: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 41 m

Sweetgrass

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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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 bes...

Directed By: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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15% Mixed
3 Reviews
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100
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.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 9, 2013
Sweetgrass reminds us of the stupefying magnificence of its setting—beautiful for spacious skies and mountain majesties—while never letting us forget its formidable perils.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 9, 2013
Sweetgrass is an unexpectedly intoxicating documentary, unexpected because it blends high artistic standards with the grueling reality of one of the toughest, most exhausting of work environments.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 9, 2013
The filmmakers wisely avoid the temptation to be cutesy (remember that penguin movie?) and sentimental.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 9, 2013
An anthropological marvel and an animal-drive movie that belongs beside the classics of the genre - Red River and Lonesome Dove.
By Stephen Cole FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 9, 2013
It’s a powerful testimonial to a fading way of life.
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Production Company Grasshopper Film, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)
Release Date Jan 6, 2010
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline The Last Ride of the American Cowboy
Website http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Sweetgrass/112109648914?ref=ts
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Awards

International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Punto de Vista
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations

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